(n.) An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.
(n.) Term; expression; phrase.
(v. t.) To describe by an epithet.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3) The first who presumed an independent state of these microorganisms, was Kohlert (1968), from the work of which the epithet for correct name, i.e.
(2) Trolls called Kaepernick racial epithets , after all.
(3) When he first became president, Republicans slammed him for being a socialist – an epithet, from their lips, of the worst kind.
(4) This epithet was sufficiently offensive for Obama to cancel a planned meeting with Duterte.
(5) Male, pale and stale is the epithet often used to describe the makeup of a charity board.
(6) The tragic results for the babies of patients prescribed thalidomide, although they can indeed be termed "side" effects, hardly warrant so slight an epithet, and Dr Joyce in his paper would like the term to be dropped in favour of "additional" effects of drugs.
(7) Gibran's epithet is one of many quotations on the Guardian Witness website , where people are sharing good advice for the women in their life ahead of International Women's Day on Saturday.
(8) Believe the hype and he was a cross between a mafioso overlord and "HRH Victor Meldrew" (the epithet is David Starkey's).
(9) Because it's a racial slur and – no matter how many millions it spends trying to sanitize it and silence native peoples – the epithet is not, was not, and will not be an honorific.
(10) A descriptive identification epithet for P. multocida isolates was constructed.
(11) In order to provide a new reference point in the dermatological literature from which the naming of florists' chrysanthemums may be regularised and standardised, the case is presented for the use of the generic name Dendranthema together with a cultivar name in place of a specific epithet.
(12) But, in addition to being the “roof of the world”, here are a few other equally suitable epithets.
(13) Debate about the film has turned into a major talking point in a number publications large and small, with editorials in defence and critique of Django Unchained laying out their case for readers, while one of the film's stars, Samuel L Jackson, highlighted the discomfort over the frequent use of a racial epithet in the movie when he challenged a journalist to say the word out loud.
(14) We have seen it shift in particular since the Meet the Ukippers programme,” he added, referring to a recent BBC documentary about the local Ukip branch which led to one of its councillors being expelled after she was filmed saying that she had a “problem” with black people and using racial epithets.
(15) I was called a dirty Jew walking home from synagogue, my rabbi was kicked and punched in central London while anti-Jewish epithets were hurled at him, and my university sometimes suffered from an atmosphere of intimidation and harassment of Jewish students.
(16) The long-standing use of racial epithets by players and racial abuse from crowds have been exposed by a number of incidents in which the authorities actually prosecuted perpetrators: Juventude supporters were barred from their ground after racially abusing Internacional's Tinga in 2005.
(17) DC representative Eleanor Holmes Norton said: “As an African American woman and third-generation Washingtonian, I want to say to Redskins fans: no one blames you for using a name that has always been used but they will blame you if you continue to use it.” She compared the word to racial epithets used against African Americans before it was accepted that they were not the terms of endearment that some claimed.
(18) The epithets applicable to these groups appear to be lacunata, nonliquefaciens, and bovis.
(19) But before Argo, Affleck had pretty much had to retire from being a frontline movie star because he almost without exception ensured any movie's eternal epithet would be "the Ben Affleck shocker — ".
(20) He also went to jab at former rival Jeb Bush, using the epithet “low energy” while going on a tirade about primary opponents who signed the RNC pledge to support the eventual nominee but are now not backing Trump.
Moniker
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) And United are also thought to be close to signing Ajax’s Daley Blind – the “deluxe O’Shea”, to give him his catalogue moniker.
(2) The “three percenter” moniker alludes to the small percentage of colonials such groups claim fought in the American revolutionary war.
(3) Their attacks previously knocked out the websites of top US banks, under the moniker Operation Ababil, but the Cyber Fighters’ gaze has shifted to events closer to home in recent months.
(4) The blogger, who goes by the moniker Mosul Eye, also said the three girls who had escaped, were being hunted by Isis militants.
(5) Seen as a warm and witty liberal, he founded the parliamentary bicycle pool and has earned the moniker the "bicycling baronet" (the Youngs featured on a British Rail poster promoting the transport of bicycles by rail in 1982).
(6) He has shown himself consistently unwilling to bend his beliefs in favour of political expediency, even where that leaves him alone and in the wilderness, earning himself the moniker "Dr No" in Congress.
(7) Wall Street traders impressed with his cut-throat tactics prefer the moniker "swamp alligator".
(8) Of all the songs we cut, we were enamoured of the ones we chose for the album that portrayed this attitude.” Unreleased David Bowie album to come out in new box set ‘My name is Michael Caine’ – legally After more than 60 years in showbiz, and frustrated by increased airport security checks, the legendary British actor, born Maurice Micklewhite, has decided to replace his birth name with his showbiz moniker for good.
(9) Maybe that will come later, although Merkel never did warm to l'art de la bise , the art of kissing introduced to her by Nicolas Sarkozy which helped to earn them the joint moniker "Merkozy".
(10) As for the tenuous future of the OWC in Singapore, the club may very well have to open under a different moniker.
(11) Broccoli does help the liver out but, unlike the broad-shouldered, cape-wearing image that its superfood moniker suggests, it is no hero.
(12) Updated at 5.31pm BST 5.02pm BST Eliot Higgins, who blogs the Syrian conflict under the moniker Brown Moses, has been collecting footage today of an aircraft reportedly downed inside Syria, near Latakia, in the north – within 50 miles of the Turkish border.
(13) The unofficial “city” moniker seeks to big them up but Letchworth and Welwyn, no matter how pleasant to some, unequivocally remain towns.
(14) He also disclosed the existence of a department of the Secret Intelligence Service‚ now known as MI6 but then known as section "M.I.i.c" of the War Office.7 Worst of all, Mackenzie revealed that the first head of MI6, the one-legged Captain Sir Mansfield Cumming, was referred to as C. It is a moniker that his successors, including the incumbent, Sir John Sawers, maintain.
(15) David Lengel (@LengelDavid) Wacha shed the moniker of being a good young pitcher to being a good pitcher in that inning.
(16) His first solo show at the Edinburgh festival followed shortly after; it was in a tiny room and sold out in minutes (I was there one night and heckled under the moniker of Trevor Danger.
(17) But others complain that Udall’s campaign has been dull, uninspiring and one-dimensional, earning him the moniker “Senator Uterus”.
(18) Meanwhile .su has become an increasingly notorious corner of the internet, an online echo of the "evil empire" moniker assigned to the Soviet Union by Ronald Reagan 30 years ago.
(19) He adopted the un-Serb middle name of David and used it increasingly as a professional moniker.
(20) Other Republican candidates have not drawn explicit connections between the movement’s organizers and violence against police, but they have stumbled all the while on whether or not to accept its moniker.