(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.
Soubriquet
Definition:
(n.) See Sobriquet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Driving to meet Steve Horton, a US tax accountant whose clients include bankers, entrepreneurs and high-flying American lawyers based in France, the taxi driver passes Fouquet's, the expensive restaurant where Sarkozy inadvisedly celebrated his own election victory, in company with pop star Johnny Hallyday, film star Jean Reno and high-flying businessmen, prompting the coining of the soubriquet President Bling Bling.
(2) Many local anti-Ukip protests are galvanised by a tiny, loud woman who goes by the soubriquet Bunny La Roche and who last December lambasted Farage from the audience on Question Time , her blue hair and cries of “racist scumbag” making a lasting impression.
(3) Waiting for fares by the newly opened Malmaison hotel, on Dundee’s sparkling £1bn waterfront redevelopment, taxi driver Ian Higgins has no doubt about the outcome of May’s general election: “I think it will be an SNP landslide and it will maybe wake up the politicians down in London who all seem to be out for themselves.” The 62-year-old voted for the very first time in last autumn’s referendum and voted for independence, along with 57.3% of his fellow Dundonians, earning it the soubriquet “Yes City”.
(4) That's a soubriquet he is going to hate, not least because it is a label with history.
(5) Financial fair play”, a somewhat toe-curling soubriquet, and not one associated with Fifa, was introduced in 2010 , requiring top European clubs to staunch their losses from paying excessive players wages.
(6) Already, Keighley has won the soubriquet of "racial hotspot" but it could become much worse.
(7) I am sure I will gather some more epithets and soubriquets along the way".
(8) Charlie Stuart, originally from Banff in Aberdeenshire, is one of the thousands of Scots who have settled in the Northamptonshire town since the steel boom of the 1930s, helping to earn it the soubriquet of "Little Scotland".
(9) Her only concession to the Treasury was to withdraw free school milk for seven- to 11-year-olds, a gift to political opponents (who skilfully conjured the image of a woman withholding her teats from babies) that earned her the soubriquet "milk-snatcher".
(10) In more recent cases, the super-injunction soubriquet has been applied when the courts have decided that the identity of the person requesting the gag cannot be published.
(11) Arguably that’s because his confidence can come over as arrogance: “Smart Alex” was not a soubriquet born of love.