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

Adrian E. Alvarez, who runs the group’s website, created a song titled “Spencer, Saca La Bassura,” a reference to Pratt’s epithet for the mayor from the Spanish word for trash.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 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

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

“I want to make clear that our police department does not tolerate racism or unacceptable epithets of any kind from any member of our organization,” Solinsky wrote in the release.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2024

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

From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2023

We then passed through all tweets – over a million in total – that contained any one of 119 words, phrases, slurs and epithets related to antisemitism.

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2023

The paucity of theatrical flourishes speaks volumes: Or rather, it is Henrik Ibsen’s words, in a faithful “new version” by Amy Herzog that adds a few choice epithets, that are given overarching priority.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2023

Grumbling a few disinterested epithets, they moved away.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison