Word: epithet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...twilight set began extremely promisingly with Jay-Z samples and a stimulating light show exciting the audience in a way that Park never managed. Whereas Park merely tapped toes and exchanged glances, Wale at least made attempts to excite the crowd, with hand-waving, cursing, and the universal epithet “you know what I’m sayin’.” And although this didn’t single-handedly save the show, it at least made the set decently entertaining, while the other artists left the audience hanging...
...government. Intransigence has its pleasures. In the hermetically sealed tornado of right-wing bloviation, the wildest claims have come to seem the most marketable. This was a problem on the left for a long time. When Congressman Randy Neugebauer of Texas screamed "Baby killer!" on the House floor, the epithet resonated - the protesters who screamed those same words at U.S. troops in the 1960s sent the American pendulum swinging back toward conservatism and crippled the Democratic Party for several generations. The Tea Party nativism, paranoia and anti-intellectualism embraced by the Republicans have rarely been a winning hand in American...
...better idea," he said. "We've all killed hadjis," Barker said, using an epithet common among soldiers for Iraqis, "but I've been here twice and I still never f___ed one of these bitches." Cortez's interest was piqued. They talked about it, the three of them, semiseriously but somewhat distractedly as they did other things throughout the rest of the morning. Sometimes Barker and Cortez would confer privately, sometimes Green and Barker would, and sometimes all three of them would talk...
...story by millions, and you get a sense of what a forward-looking country this once very backward society has become. A smart American who lived in China for years and who wants to avoid being identified publicly (perhaps because he'd be labeled a "panda hugger," the timeworn epithet tossed at anyone who has anything good to say about China) puts it this way: "China is striving to become what it has not yet become. It is upwardly mobile, consciously, avowedly and - as its track record continues to strengthen - proudly...
...charter school he founded, hated that handle. He insists the Agassi of the mullet and acid-washed jeans wasn't a punk; he was just lost. And "paragon" is simply hyperbole. Agassi's evolution, however, is still striking. So we'll offer him a more fitting, if less catchy, epithet: from anguished soul to outstanding author...