Synonym: byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, soubriquet. Similar words: opprobrium, tourniquet, etiquette, job rotation, sob, sober, isobar, disobey. Meaning: ['səʊbrɪket /-keɪ] 
n. a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name).
n. a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name). 
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(1) From his staff he earned the sobriquet "Mumbles".
(2) This sobriquet is a product of the sixteenth century.
(3) The team acquired the sobriquet Jail Blazers.
(4) Earning the sobriquet "turd blossom" Mr Rove, as the story goes, provided the strategic thinking behind the genial front of Mr Bush.
(5) This has earned it the renown and sobriquet "The moonstone on the Crown of the Kingdom of Plants".
(6) Andrew Jackson was known by the sobriquet " Old Hickory. "
(7) Her father earned this sobriquet from the slaughter in East Pakistan as Bangladesh struggled to be born.
(8) The political connections that earned Goldman the sobriquet Government Sachs have been loosened by the crisis.
(9) These charms have earned the television programme's presenter the sobriquet 'the thinking woman's crumpet'. Sentencedict.com
(10) Fortunately some of the neighbours intervened, and it was they who invented the sobriquet.
(11) His youngest son was known to Regency society by the sobriquet Poodle Byng.
(12) I became friendly with the woman in charge, a vast and haughty person who answered to the sobriquet Duchesse.
(13) The dashes looked like ants column; thus, this effect earned the colorful sobriquet marching ants.
(14) His right-wing politics and persistent warnings about the rise of China have earned him the sobriquet "Japan's Jean-Marie Le Pen".
(15) After that, Americans who wish to visit the space station (largely an American-financed project(sentencedict.com), despite its "international" sobriquet) will be reduced to hitching a lift with the Russians.
(16) xxxvi:1 One of our public men, I have been told, is known among his friends by the sobriquet of "Self-help by smiles."
(17) They are often given names based on the town in which they were reported, or on the sobriquet which was given to Mary on the occasion of the apparition.
(18) Daniel Webster's relentless gaze and commanding presence earned him the sobriquet "Black Dan."
(19) India plans to mothball its mainstay MiG-21 Soviet-era fighter jets, which have earned the sobriquet "flying coffins" because of their dismal safety record.
(20) While demanding more money for her department, she cut out free milk for elementary school children, thus earning the cruel sobriquet "Thatcher the Milk Snatcher."
More similar words: opprobrium, tourniquet, etiquette, job rotation, sob, sober, isobar, disobey, sobbing, not so bad, sobering, suet, duet, due to, banquet, bouquet, croquet, disobedient, coquette, marquetry, disobedience, baguette, desuetude, pirouette, coquettish, pique, silhouette, milquetoast, unique, clique.