What's the difference between moniker and sobriquet?

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.

Sobriquet


Definition:

  • (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.