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

Still, its control of the industry—and Americans’ daily lives—earned AT&T the epithet “Ma Bell.”

From Barron's ● May 2, 2026

The Colombian film “A Poet” is, yes, about a poet, though that title takes on a revolving set of connotations—an aspiration, an occupation, a mocking epithet, a euphemism for “unemployed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

Such holes hardly deserve the epithet black: they really are white hot and are emitting energy at a rate of about ten thousand megawatts.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

The bean counters expect their doctors, who yank people back from the brink of death and care for ailing folks screaming epithets at them, to do it all with a smile.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2025

In texts with The Times, the self-described superfan said that he did not exchange any words with the Dodgers outfielder and denied using any racial epithets for Betts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2024

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