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epithet

[ep-uh-thet] / ˈɛp əˌθɛt /


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We are here because Eatherly went well beyond brandishing a loaded epithet.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

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

From Barron's ● May 2, 2026

The Colombian film “A Poet” is, yes, about a poet, though that title takes on a revolving set of connotations—an aspiration, an occupation, a mocking epithet, a euphemism for “unemployed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

It was not an unfair epithet, though meant unkindly.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

Students in the audience, some with mouths taped shut to symbolize their hunger strike over the issue, reacted with fury, calling out, “Cowards!” and other epithets after the 10-to-6 vote, with one abstention.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024

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

Christine allowed herself to walk in their shoes for a moment, wondering how she would deal with the taunts, the bottles, the epithets, and the humiliation.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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