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Example sentences for: epithet

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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.
The NYT says the informant testified that "Markhasev had said he shot a black man," while the WP says the testimony was "I killed a [racial epithet]."
He was invoking the vicious and sinister qualities that make weasels (along with stoats and ferrets) such satisfying villains in Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows , and such pleasingly greasy stooges in David Letterman's epithet "record industry weasels."
And then Robinson bids us compare “the Arabic epithet of Alexander the Great” which he translates as the Latin word, bicornis `two-horned.
So do, surely, BeeWee intensifications, doubling the epithet; a Windward Islander may call a fruit sweet-sweet , one adjective not sufficing to express feelings about it enough.