Word: epithet
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...sounds a little like cubistic Browning. Like Browning, he seems to lack or at any rate to disdain the gifts of melody and phrase; though now and then, as in his lament for the passing of the civic virtues that once made Boston great, he gets off a sizzling epithet...
Painting an acute picture of Texas politics, Gonzalez described his struggle to overcome the epithet "liberal" in the special 20th Congressional district election November 4. "Liberalism is equated with all the works of the devil. If you're a liberal, you're a profligate spendthrift or a Red. To say the Word 'A.D.A.' is treason...
Most European parents approve their sons' taking part in ratonnades?the hunting down of "rats," a French epithet for Moslems. Explained a father: "Our sons are all we have left to make us respected here. They are our only means of resistance." A Moslem says: "For each Moslem killed, we will kill a European." A European answers: "Since we are an eight-to-one minority in Algeria, eight Moslems will die for every...
Because Mr. Angus Wilson is, among many other things, an acute chronicler of the Welfare State, he has incurred the unfortunate label of "traditional novelist"--the nastiest epithet in the current critical lexicon. Mr. Wilson's novels are by this means arbitrarily damned to comparisons with the matronly, jovial and encyclopaedic shades (respectively) of George Eliot, Charles Dickens and John Galsworthy...
...group that waited in vain for Rexroth was a strange combination of disgruntled newsmen, baggage porters, little boys waiting for their mothers, and a few scattered students who vaguely fulfilled the epithet of beatnik...