epithet

All summer, voters, consultants, and pundits have repeatedly attached Obama’s name like a Homeric epithet to a bumper crop of young, talented, and mostly male candidates running across the country.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

We can only guess how the Romans came to call her Dido; Ms. MacDonald supposes it was an epithet meaning “the wanderer.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

Bangladesh's Prothom Alo newspaper, which said Zia had "earned the epithet of the 'uncompromising leader'", reported that Rahman and other family members were by her side at the time of her death.

From Barron's ● Dec. 30, 2025

One aspect of the show that the actor questioned, however, was Fuchs and Kane’s decision to omit that incendiary epithet from the scripts.

From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2025

In Nahuad rhetoric, things were frequently represented by the unusual device of naming two of their elements—a kind of doubled Homeric epithet.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Part of pop culture’s hyper-masculinity resurgence involves renormalizing epithets and abolishing considerate language.

From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2025

Astronomers and astrologers pin the popularization of moon epithets to the rise of the internet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

On any day, it is nearly impossible not to pass by someone yelling obscenities and epithets, fighting unseen demons.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023

These labels salt the book on almost every page, and always as epithets.

From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2023

In fact he seldom cursed, and the epithets he chose were dull, even harmless.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison