epithet
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Epithet inflation has diminished “great” somewhat so we have to be careful.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2012
Epithet too easily used which assailed unanimously the appearance of "Interpretation of Dreams" by Freud, psychologic document which is and always will remain in spite of all the most important and sensational of our epoch.
From Time Magazine Archive
Epithet Potbellied Sirs: Naturally, if you are not potbellied, the epithet rolls off you like water from a duck's back.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then read once more, and you shall wonder yet At Skill, at Turn, at Point, at Epithet.
From Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II by Dobson, Austin
The British Epithet is merciful: And we the sons of Britain learn like them To conquer and to spare; for coward souls Seek their revenge but on a vanquish'd foe.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Freneau, Philip
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