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Example sentences for: epithet

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There is certainly no contemporary leader with an adopted name as coldly presumptuous as "Stalin" (meaning "man of steel," an epithet adopted when Josef Dzhugashvili was still more than a decade away from power), much less one comparable with "Richard the Lionhearted" or "Vlad the Impaler."
The latter, however, isn't a country, but--as its ever-present Homeric epithet indicates--a "breakaway republic" of Russia.
None exploited "pig" as an epithet for policeman.
To be sure, by today's standards, the film's most often used epithet, fool is quite harmless; but such timeless pearls as You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk! are as effective and amusing today as they were fifty years ago.
They use the phrase "towel-snapper" as an epithet, like there's something hideous about being mildly boorish with your male friends.