epithet
绰号,称谓,称呼,词条
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Definitions
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- : any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality: “Richard the Lion-Hearted” is an epithet of Richard I.
- : a characterizing word or phrase firmly associated with a person or thing and often used in place of an actual name, title, or the like, as “man's best friend” for “dog.”
- : a word, phrase, or expression used invectively as a term of abuse or contempt, to express hostility, etc.: He demeans his female employees by addressing them with sexist epithets.
- : Botany, Zoology. specific epithet.
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Examples
Call him what you want—and many use unprintable epithets—he looks like the Pied Piper as reporters and other Senators follow in his wake as he goes to cast another vote that will enrage someone.
Centuries of rudimentary medicine and social stigma were recalled in that one harsh epithet alone.
Like any woman, I’d come to expect explicit photos, unwanted advances, and, when I dared decline, epithets.
Viewers of color can feel safe watching the story without waiting for that moment when our breath is punched from our lungs because of an epithet, an othering action or plot point constructed on historical pain, pain that still runs deep.
In hopes of raising interest in these overlooked wonders, he chose the epithet quarantenae for a new species of microscopic Laboulbenia fungus described July 30 in MycoKeys.
It was Tarshis who gave the comedian the memorable epithet “Jell-O Man.”
When they get on the road, they find their place of birth is now an epithet.
For one, Lewis has never said Tea Party members have hurled the racial epithet at him.
It is very common for conservatives to use “latte-sipping” as an epithet.
Finally the epithet of "deathless" gets some explanation, stemming from Golovan's fearless ministrations during a plague.
Many of the first connoisseurs, now hesitate whether to apply the epithet greatest to Guarnerius or to Stradiuarius.