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

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

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

She and Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar shouted epithets at the podium as Trump spoke that were hard to make out.

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026

“Democrats need to stay away from epithets like ‘weird,’ ” Stephens said, echoing a point that his colleague Thomas Friedman had also recently made.

From Slate ● May 9, 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

However, Areida was laughing, which made it seem the worst of epithets.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine