An informal, often humorous name; a name that is either connected to the real name, the personality, the appearance or an anecdote.
1 How well the sobriquet was merited will be seen in the sequel.
2 Hearing his sobriquet , a look of hope gleamed suddenly in his eye.
3 It was how he got the sobriquet of Saint Alex of Conklin.
4 He had fled, discharging at them a sobriquet , like a Parthian dart.
5 His cronies have very appropriately given him the sobriquet of 'Whiskey Jemmie.'
6 In Ruiz' case the sobriquet was bestowed for reasons utterly devoid of irony.
7 In the University of Virginia, a sobriquet applied to dandies and vain pretenders.
8 He deserves the sobriquet of the Henri Estienne of Hebrew letters.
9 I assume nothing, but I think the sobriquet speaks for itself.
10 From that day until the end, the sobriquet clung to him.
11 At the University of Cambridge, Eng., the sobriquet of a fellow-commoner.
12 It is not for nothing that the king of instruments won its sobriquet .
13 Harrigan acquired this sobriquet on account of his ear for music.
14 The sobriquet stuck, though the Genius himself chalks it all up to luck.
15 Known in Paris, I have heard, by the sobriquet of the Black Death?'
16 It is a sobriquet among the Council for willing food.
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