The Only Use of
epithet
in
Gone with the Wind
- Old men growled in their beards, and Mrs. Merriwether who feared nothing rose slightly in her carriage and said clearly: "Speculator!" in a tone that made the word the foulest and most venomous of epithets.†
Chpt 2.14
Definition:
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(epithet as in: racial epithet) an insulting or abusive word or phrase