Sample Sentences for
epithet
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epithet as in:  racial epithet

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Both sides are hurling the Nazi epithet.
epithet = an insulting or abusive word or phrase used to refer to a person or group
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    The spelling of psychoanalyze, the epithet slumbitch for Peter, the joke about pronouncing knew like canoe were all things that no one could know but Val.  (source)
    epithet = an insulting or abusive word or phrase
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    He said that the POWs had complained of "trifle things" and had used epithets to refer to the Japanese.  (source)
    epithets = insulting or abusive words or phrases
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    The child still struggled and loaded me with epithets which carried despair to my heart; I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet.  (source)
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    I do not agree, in fact I am angry, when I hear you called an idiot; you are far too intelligent to deserve such an epithet; but you are so far STRANGE as to be unlike others; that you must allow, yourself.  (source)
    epithet = an insulting or abusive word or phrase
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    The taunting breaks out into a wild, savage dance, with epithets hurled at Anita, who is encircled...  (source)
    epithets = insulting or abusive words or phrases
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    She also was known by other names: Elat, her most common epithet.†  (source)
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    Initials and epithets marked the tables, gouged by a hundred mischievous hands.†  (source)
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    Jones' epithet was the most perjorative curse of electronics people.†  (source)
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    Danny knew that this was one of the worst epithets his father could summon.†  (source)
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    The taxi, stuffed full of Iranians, weaved through traffic, alternately plunging ahead at full throttle and screeching to a halt as the driver leaned on the horn and called his islamic brothers "saag" a particularly vehement epithet that literally means "dog."†  (source)
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    After about a quarter of an hour, however, domestic harmony would be disturbed, their voices rose, and the epithets they used were now drawn from the entire range of domesticated animals, ending with the pig.†  (source)
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    Elizabeth could hardly help laughing at so convenient a proposal; yet was really vexed that her mother should be always giving him such an epithet.†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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epithet as in:  earned the epithet, "The Great"

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The cardinals denied he was Pope and ordered that he stop using papal epithets.
epithets = titles or descriptors
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George Washington is known by the epithet, "Father of our Country".
epithet = a descriptive phrase used with or instead of a name
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