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He said that the POWs had complained of "trifle things" and had used epithets to refer to the Japanese.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

The taunting breaks out into a wild, savage dance, with epithets hurled at Anita, who is encircled...  (source) Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim, Westside Story, 1957

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) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot, 1900

The epithet, despite sounding flattering, was quite to the contrary.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

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) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1831

She also was known by other names: Elat, her most common epithet.†  (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

Danny knew that this was one of the worst epithets his father could summon.†  (source) Stephen King, The Shining, 1977

Everyone found the use of this service epithet amusing.†  (source) Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October, 1984

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) Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist, 1998

Whenever possible I have left names unchanged, though Sayuri did hide the identities of certain men even from me through the convention, rather common among geisha, of referring to customers by means of an epithet.†  (source) Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, 1997

Now, reincarnated as boss of her own magazine—the kind of job she'd vowed never to take—the first of these epithets stuck.†  (source) Nicholas Evans, The Horse Whisperer, 1995

Clary responded with an epithet that would have gotten her kicked out of class at St. Xavier's.†  (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls, 2012

Nathaniel took to drawing on the walls and ceiling of their apartment, and did amazingly dead-on caricatures of teachers and classmates and scribbled musical references and racial epithets, turning their apartment into a mad tapestry of race-tinged, twenty-year-old angst.†  (source) Steve Lopez, The Soloist, 1995

The cardinals denied he was Pope and ordered that he stop using papal epithets.†

Hall swept off into a diatribe against the "gambler's paradise," which was his epithet for the United States.†  (source) Jack London, The Valley of the Moon