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epithet

noun as in nickname

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Call him what you want—and many use unprintable epithets—he looks like the Pied Piper as reporters and other Senators follow in his wake as he goes to cast another vote that will enrage someone.

Centuries of rudimentary medicine and social stigma were recalled in that one harsh epithet alone.

Like any woman, I’d come to expect explicit photos, unwanted advances, and, when I dared decline, epithets.

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Viewers of color can feel safe watching the story without waiting for that moment when our breath is punched from our lungs because of an epithet, an othering action or plot point constructed on historical pain, pain that still runs deep.

In hopes of raising interest in these overlooked wonders, he chose the epithet quarantenae for a new species of microscopic Laboulbenia fungus described July 30 in MycoKeys.

It was Tarshis who gave the comedian the memorable epithet “Jell-O Man.”

When they get on the road, they find their place of birth is now an epithet.

For one, Lewis has never said Tea Party members have hurled the racial epithet at him.

It is very common for conservatives to use “latte-sipping” as an epithet.

Finally the epithet of "deathless" gets some explanation, stemming from Golovan's fearless ministrations during a plague.

Many of the first connoisseurs, now hesitate whether to apply the epithet greatest to Guarnerius or to Stradiuarius.

When she was unaware of the name she was accustomed to address all males by the epithet "man."

Now it strikes me that there is quite as much tautology in "unsane lunes" as in the double epithet, "dangerous, unsafe."

His character, however, by no means justified the epithet of holy and pious emperor bestowed by Dionysius of Alexandria.

Indeed, they used the epithet son of a goat in the same way as the modern vulgar do an appellation which is much more literal.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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