An informal, often humorous name; a name that is either connected to the real name, the personality, the appearance or an anecdote.
A defamatory or abusive word or phrase.
1 She also was known by other names: Elat, her most common epithet .
2 The epithet Silent was in no way applicable to his general character.
3 It is certainly a catchy epithet , but what does it actually mean?
4 Usually as a near epithet from her family and friends in Sandholm.
5 Primrosy is the epithet which this year will retain in my recollection.
6 Usually I have not taken the trouble even to notice the epithet .
7 He checked himself on the first hissing breath of the foul epithet .
8 In conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet , such as the All-Good.
9 He muttered an epithet that expressed his doubt in one explosive syllable.
10 The one epithet refers to atmosphere, the other to number of pages.
11 Those who levied tonnage and poundage were branded with the same epithet .
12 Gray, in repeating this imagery, has borrowed a remarkable epithet from Milton:
13 I mean to marry the lady to whom you give that epithet .
14 I believe you must substitute some more indifferent epithet for the present.
15 If you insist on the longer line, equip 'grave' with an epithet .
16 The epithet seemed intended to apply to every non-Okie in the universe.
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