(n.) An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cutaneous necrosis with microvascular calcification is a rare and serious complication of chronic renal failure and has been given the sobriquet of 'calciphylaxis'.
(2) Mr Putin seems to have worked hard to earn his sobriquet, researching the US president's quirks before their first meeting in Slovenia in June.
(3) Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca, 1940) Hitchcock, the brilliant self-publicist who probably devised his own sobriquet "Master of Suspense", virtually invented the movie cameo en route to becoming the world's most recognisable director.
(4) He almost certainly would also have been expelled under Barack Obama, who broke records with 2.5m formally expelled, earning the sobriquet “ deporter-in-chief”.
(5) He had been indicted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague in January 2006 on three counts of war crimes allegedly committed while he was helping to command another rebel group in Congo's Ituri region, a time during which he earned the sobriquet "the Terminator."
(6) Wisson said: “One of gin’s sobriquets is ‘mother’s ruin’ and the drink still has certain associations with older drinkers, contributing to it being likely to be seen as an older person’s drink and the least likely as a young person’s drink.
(7) Long before she merged her middle name with the sobriquet of a porn star to become Angel Haze, Haze was Raeen Angel Wilson, born in Detroit in 1991.
(8) Lesson from 1971 Margaret Thatcher earned the unflattering sobriquet "Thatcher, Thatcher, milk snatcher" as education secretary in Edward Heath's government with the decision to axe free school milk for the over-sevens in 1971.
(9) Osborne does not deserve the sobriquet of a work-experience or part-time chancellor – he is in command of the Treasury and I have seen at first hand how he chairs meetings efficiently and inclusively.
(10) "Orbital pseudotumor" remains a sobriquet for a variety of clinical and histopathologic entities including a monomorphous lymphocytic benign or malignant neoplasm; a polymorphous reactive inflammatory lesion; and a densely fibrosing sclerotic variant that appears to behave more aggressively, often locally invades adjacent structures, and may be related to a multifocal fibrosclerosis that also includes retroperitoneal fibrosis, Riedel's sclerosing thyroiditis, mediastinal fibrosis, and sclerosing cholangitis.
(11) There was bipartisan support to close it.” While little is new in the plan, the administration for the first time identified that it believes it will continue to hold between 30 and 60 detainees indefinitely without charge in a replacement domestic facility – a decision, strongly opposed by human rights campaigners since Obama adopted it in 2009, that has earned the plan the derisive sobriquet “Gitmo North”, whereby the practices that made Guantánamo internationally infamous migrate rather than stop.
(12) An intriguing snapshot of a hack's navel, it at least earned me the grand sobriquet "Ranter of the Guardian" in the Daily Mail (who know a thing or two about publishing ill-thought-through opinions themselves, after all), though the affair needn't be examined in any further detail here.
(13) He admits to having been "an ardent Thatcherite" because of her monetary policies, and her stance on the cold war, but objects to the sobriquet "rightwing", which has followed him ever since.
(14) That earned him the sobriquet "Gorgeous George" but also disapproval from some of his local party members.
(15) None of the Argentine players was named Flaco, but in Latin America you only become a real person once you acquire a nickname, and 'Flaco' - 'Thin One' - was the sobriquet of Fernando Redondo.
(16) By 1987, the critic Robert Hughes nominated Freud as the greatest living realist painter, and after the death of Francis Bacon five years later, the sobriquet could be taken as a commendation, or it could imply an honour fit for an anachronistic "figurative" artist working in London.
(17) Some people have suggested there was a racist element to the sobriquet – after all, Brown was the only non-white girl in the group.