Sample sentences for EPITHET - verbalworkout.com

2 meanings

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1 —as in:
racial epithet

Definition

an insulting or abusive word or phrase

Both sides are hurling the Nazi epithet.

epithet = an insulting or abusive word or phrase

Other Uses (with this meaning)

...you dare not touch him with a finger or an epithet.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
...he got a certain satisfaction from believing that the citizens of Lincoln had meekly accepted the epithet "coarse barbarians."
Willa Cather -- My Antonia
He said that the POWs had complained of "trifle things" and had used epithets to refer to the Japanese.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

epithets = insulting or abusive words or phrases

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

epithets = insulting or abusive words or phrases

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.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

epithets = insulting or abusive words or phrases

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.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot

epithet = an insulting or abusive word or phrase

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2 —as in:
earned the epithet, "The Great"

Definition

a descriptor added to a person's name — as in Alexander The Great

or:

a phrase used in place of a name or word — such as: The Big Apple for New York, The Great Emancipator for Abraham Lincoln, or man's best friend for dog

George Washington is known by the epithet, "Father of our Country".

epithet = a phrase used in place of a name or word — such as:

The Big Apple for New York
The Great Emancipator for Abraham Lincoln
man's best friend for dog

Other Uses (with this meaning)

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.
Jack London -- The Valley of the Moon

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Less commonly:

In botany, a specific epithet or epithet is the word identifying the species.

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