sobriquet

And though Slater earned the sobriquet “Slater the Traitor” back home, he never returned to Britain to face the consequences.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

The metro area’s population is booming and financial-services firms are flocking here, earning the area the sobriquet “Y’all Street.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

While extolled by supporters as Venezuela’s “dama de hierro” — the iron lady, a sobriquet bestowed decades ago on British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — Machado is a controversial figure, even within the Venezuelan opposition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2025

However it's defined, though, the idea of distinct sleeping arrangements, also known by the doom-laden sobriquet "sleep divorce," sounds like a marital death knell.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2024

He had nicknamed a particularly tyrannical, humorless, and rosy steward “Pink Whiskers,” a sobriquet that was soon used by all the jockeys.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Both sobriquets stem from Ludwig’s penchant for building gargantuan displays of excess at a clip that placed him in massive debt.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2025

That has earned him the sobriquets “Xi’s alter ego” and “Xi’s chief of staff.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 22, 2022

But this week, as a punishing heat wave bears down on Portland and much of western Oregon, Portlanders have given their town such nicknames as “Hotlandia,” along with less polite sobriquets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2017

Richard Johnson of the Page Six gossip column often has tarred her with sobriquets like “the pushy publicist” or “perpetually petulant publicist.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2016

They manifestly did not suppose their sobriquets would be any bar to preferment.

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Charles W. Bardsley