Synonym: name. Similar words: fire pit, epitome, decrepit, epitomize, pithy, antithetical, out of keeping with, keep in touch with. Meaning: ['epɪθet] n. 1. a defamatory or abusive word or phrase 2. descriptive word or phrase.
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1) He hardly deserves the epithet 'fascist'.
2) The opera-singer's 104-kilo frame has earned him the epithet of 'Man Mountain' in the press.
3) Gross would be another epithet for it.
4) The former epithet is apt, the latter less so.
5) Unessential is actually an unfair epithet when applied to sticky buns.
6) In Sicily Bona Dea was probably an epithet for Demeter.
7) The epithet is that part of speech which most readily reflects such a change.
8) An epithet that sums up my feelings.
9) Much falsified criticism, together with the slandering epithet like "anti-partyism", "Rightism" did her severe detriment.
10) Transferred epithet, a super - conventional collocation, is composed of a transferred epithet and its new modified object.
11) Since Transferred Epithet to the unique - aesthetic features, Making it in modern society have been widely applied.
12) The specific epithet variously did or did not repeat a key word from the phrase - name.
13) From the deep structure of transferred epithet, its internal language meaning can be tenable.
14) Indeed, some observers fear that anti - science epithet is in danger of becoming meaningless.
15) Transferred epithet is a very figure of speech of great importance in language use.
16) The film is long and dramatic but does not quite earn the epithet 'epic'.
17) She jumped out of the car and hurried along the road, ignoring the colourful epithet that followed her.
18) Three hundred years later he is remembered as an honourable man, an epithet to be prized above the highest awards attainable.
19) McKay, born and raised a Protestant in Derry, doubtless will qualify for the epithet too.
20) One was founded by William Batty, who gave his name to one epithet for madness.
21) Gossipy men, known as " long-tongued men", are found everywhere although the epithet is somehow none too popular yet.
22) Gossipy men, known as "long-tongued" man", are found everywhere although the epithet is somehow none too popular yet.
23) In ` Alfred the Great', ` the Great'is an epithet.
24) This paper makes an analysis of its formation, function and difference from transferred epithet.
25) Indeed, some observers fear that the anti - science epithet is in danger of becoming meaningless.
26) Speaking to reporters, Queensland premier Anna Bligh called it "a disaster on an unprecedented scale, " which seemed to be a pretty good epithet for the year as a whole - whatever its cause.
27) The president stood beside a parcel of cleared ground near the White House,(http://sentencedict.com/epithet.html) preparing to lay the cornerstone of a federal office building and to plant an enduring epithet on investigative journalism.
28) And for having put an end to the feral wandering of these few giants, so that they became the princes of the gentes, he received the epithet Stator, stayer or establisher.
29) " I wonder what he'll find to match this epithet, commented another man.
30) Amitabha vows that "All sentient beings that intone my Buddha epithet will eradicate their crimes of eight billion eons and acquire merits of eight billion eons."