Bywords

Word BYWORDS
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Definitions and meanings of "Bywords"

What do we mean by bywords?

A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase.

A characteristic word or expression; a word or phrase associated with a person or group.

Someone or something that stands as an example (i.e. metonymically) for something else, by having some of that something's characteristic traits.

An object of notoriety or contempt, scorn or derision.

A nickname or epithet.

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The word "bywords" in example sentences

The bywords are reliability, local self-sufficiency and decentralization. ❋ Kenny Ausubel (2010)

"Radical self-reliance" are the bywords of the Burning Man art festival. ❋ Stu Woo (2011)

The bywords of the repackaged FN are secularism and "reasoned protectionism," a brand of economic nationalism typically associated with factions of the French left. ❋ Emma-Kate Symons (2011)

His political maxims became bywords: "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." ❋ Simon Jenkins (2011)

More and more, oppression and brutalization have become the bywords of domestic policy as well. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The phrase has since become one of those bywords for civilizational collapse, like Perez Hilton or too much estrogen in our drinking water. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the wake of the financial crisis, the bywords for the future have often been caution and sustainability. ❋ Greg Lindsay (2011)

Martin SkeggWilliam Morris spoke of catering "to the swinish luxury of the rich", something that the five-star hotel has been doing since the words Savoy and Ritz entered the lexicon as bywords for opulence. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The terms are often bywords for information seen as sensitive by China's leaders. ❋ Owen Fletcher (2011)

Cynicism and greed are the bywords of the modern game – on both sides. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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