Epithets

Word EPITHETS
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Definitions and meanings of "Epithets"

What do we mean by epithets?

A term used to characterize a person or thing.

A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.

One of many formulaic words or phrases used in the Iliad and Odyssey to characterize a person, a group of people, or a thing.

An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase.

A word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species. This applies only to formal names of plants, fungi and bacteria. In formal names of animals the corresponding term is the specific name.

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The word "epithets" in example sentences

In fact while not “racist”, your use of epithets is nearly as offensive and ultimately as non-constructive. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Doing so -- no matter what the stage of their careers -- should never earn authors insulting epithets from the people working in publishing houses. ❋ Roger Sutton (2009)

An African-American co-worker confirms that when he is with his friends certain epithets fly that no white person could get away with saying publicly. ❋ Unknown (2000)

The new uniforms came at last, and all the slang epithets with which our regiment had been received were duly transferred to the newly arrived squads of the next in order. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is with an affecting sense of gratitude to God that I discover the positive poverty of my mother-tongue in epithets of vileness befitting its description. ❋ Unknown (1865)

In middle school he was called epithets almost daily, and once he was urinated on from above the stall as he used the toilet. ❋ By ERIK ECKHOLM (2011)

Sedley, when he concluded him a fool, as well as a fop; 'For,' added he, with a smile, 'I see, now, one of those epithets is all he merits. ❋ Unknown (1796)

For the first point, yes, being able to use epithets is a viewpoint of sorts (South Park shows this), but it’s not what is generally meant when talking about viewpoints under First Amendment law. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I knew it wouldn't be long before the bigots started with outright racial epithets, that is what happens when one party is devoid of ideas and any goodwill. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It seems that Diouf was heard to hurl some nasty and pejorative epithets in the direction of an opposition player who had just had his leg smashed in an accidental collision. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Morris spoke to African-American students about their experiences shortly after integration, with responses ranging from how some white students had reached out to them to try to be friends, to other stories about being called epithets and white children washing their hands after touching the African-American students. ❋ Amanda Terkel (2010)

Sen touches on an important point: The conversation about immigation, a issue that is so far-reaching in our culture, has been ludicrously reduced to one-word epithets (Illegal) and playground diction (You lie!). ❋ Unknown (2009)

The current controversy deals with the semantic universe of racial epithets, which is bound by a very tight cultural and historical discipline. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The German philologers are not remarkable for mildness when speaking of each other; and many a one, as Haupt in Berlin, will enrich his vocabulary with ever-varying, new-coined epithets to characterize the ridiculousness, tameness, and stupidity of emendations proposed, and that, too, when speaking of such men as Orelli and Kirchner, his own colleagues in the profession. ❋ Various (N/A)

They have been called the unaesthetic, as well as the lower, senses; but the propriety of these epithets, which is undeniable, is due not to any intrinsic sensuality or baseness of these senses, but to the function which they happen to have in our experience. ❋ George Santayana (1907)

Here we have a man, a journalist by profession, one who is quick to seize every point, and to coin epithets, which throw each fleeting impression into strongest relief. ❋ Ian Hamilton (1900)

In the throng of bar-room loafers was a swarthy boatman, wearing a leathern waistcoat, who, on being jostled by a stalwart roysterer carrying a long rifle, poured out curses and slang epithets, swearing he could whip any man in the tavern or in the town. ❋ William Henry Venable (1878)

The Northern General Assembly responded by recalling the epithets, heretics, schismatics, and blasphemers, which a former Assembly in the fiery days of civil war had applied to their Southern brethren. ❋ John Hill (1862)

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