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Example sentences for: epithet

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That is because long before it became a popular name for a resident of Boston, warlike tribes had used Beaneaters as a derisive epithet for peace-loving agrarian Indians.
And then Robinson bids us compare “the Arabic epithet of Alexander the Great” which he translates as the Latin word, bicornis `two-horned.
Later bubo came to refer almost exclusively to the inguinal swelling of venereal disease, along the way being corrupted to “blue balls” as in the colorful epithet, blue-balled bastard.
Simpson trial if the defense team hadn't made a big fuss over whether he was or was not telling the truth about his use of a racial epithet.
Magens Bay is a beautiful stretch of sand with a slight kink in the center, which gives it the epithet “heart-shaped.”