epithet

Adrian E. Alvarez, who runs the group’s website, created a song titled “Spencer, Saca La Bassura,” a reference to Pratt’s epithet for the mayor from the Spanish word for trash.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2026

And Jackson asked, So he needs to use an epithet?

From Slate ● May 4, 2026

Still, its control of the industry—and Americans’ daily lives—earned AT&T the epithet “Ma Bell.”

From Barron's ● May 2, 2026

We can only guess how the Romans came to call her Dido; Ms. MacDonald supposes it was an epithet meaning “the wanderer.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

“The epithet may have been totally derisive and contemptuous, or derisive and affectionate at the same time,” writes Cole.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

She and Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar shouted epithets at the podium as Trump spoke that were hard to make out.

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026

Astronomers and astrologers pin the popularization of moon epithets to the rise of the internet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

These labels salt the book on almost every page, and always as epithets.

From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2023

Using remarkably similar epithets, they awkwardly segued from topics as varied as federal pandemic guidelines and the Chinese spy balloon to their singular focus: Allan Block, and what one caller described as his long “tentacles.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2023

Her wails and epithets carry out from the broken windows, down the firestairs.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee