Definitionn. a defamatory or abusive word or phrase
Last update: October 12, 2015
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The corrupt politician was greeted with abusive epithets on his arrival. [noun]
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He, as well as the king, both deserve the epithet ' great '. [noun]
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--though dumosa is not the appropriate epithet--what the deil, man, tempted ye to the verge of the craig. [noun]
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Angela's pallid cheek flushed crimson at the sight of the vile epithet. [noun]
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"Staggering" were a more appropriate epithet. [noun]
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"Have a care o' us, Monkbarns (distinguishing him by his territorial epithet, always most agreeable to the ear of a Scottish proprietor), is this you."' [noun]
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He gave these persons to understand, that his name was Elshender the Recluse; but his popular epithet soon came to be Canny Elshie, or the Wise Wight of Mucklestane-Moor. [noun]
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He had also three times performed the journey to Mecca, from which he derived his epithet of El Hadgi, or the Pilgrim. [noun]
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[The Scots use the epithet soft, IN MALAM PARTEM, in two cases, at least. [noun]
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With blasphemous oaths, he called me a black liar, a runaway from Georgia, and every other profane and[Pg 44] vulgar epithet that the most indecent fancy could conceive. [noun]
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Napoleon apparently remembered seeing him on the battlefield and, addressing him, again used the epithet "young man" that was connected in his memory with Prince Andrew. [noun]
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