A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
1 But today Shoreditch is a byword for artist-catalysed gentrification and buy-to-let speculation.
2 Instead his arch nemesis became a byword for political strength and stability.
3 Why is the Department a byword among journalists for secretiveness and unhelpfulness?
4 The name of Adam Warner became a byword of scorn and horror.
5 As it is, they are becoming a byword even in London streets.
6 It is an old byword that the bottle is a false consoler.
7 The name of an Englishman has been made a byword for reproach.
8 The truth was, that 'vying with Israel' was a byword with us.
9 Papal Court, whose nullity indeed had become a byword at the Vatican.
10 The silent deadliness of Tore was a byword now among the tribes.
11 Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword .
12 Once a byword for flakiness, Spurs are now hailed for their ferocity.
13 You operate under an alias that is a byword for foul temper.
14 Even before it opened, the Dome had become a byword for failure.
15 They had always been a byword for overarching civic ambition and stupidity.
16 I degraded the old name, I made it a byword in the district.
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