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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    He noticed this; and while I stood before him, trembling with weakness, he heaped upon me and my little one every vile epithet he could think of.†  (source)
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    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)
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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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    Too often she betrayed this, by the undue vent she gave to a spiteful antipathy she had conceived against little Adele: pushing her away with some contumelious epithet if she happened to approach her; sometimes ordering her from the room, and always treating her with coldness and acrimony.†  (source)
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    Danny knew that this was one of the worst epithets his father could summon.†  (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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