Word: epithetic
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...Charles Frederick Higham landed at Manhattan last week. His arrival from England had been well foretold. "Advertising Ambassador from Great Britain to the United States" was the epithet cabled ahead of him, and in footnote to the appellation was the information that he was voyaging to spend $200,000 on advertising India tea in U. S. newspapers...
Deputies of the Opposition cried "Butcher! Torturer! Nero! Judas! Hypocrite!" and many another heated epithet at Minister of Interior Boza Maximovitch, last week, at Belgrade...
...another in a long series of such conferences which have taken place with growing frequency since 1920. They are not to be dismissed by the refusal of the shallow or the cynical to discriminate between the socially minded man and the unadjusted crank who, like Calvin, well deserves the epithet of accusative ease...
...phrases were most original. To describe the fop of her day she invented or hit upon the significant epithet, "awless." She called sky "an ancient scroll." She knew what was meant when her gypsy crone said: "She will never be lonely while pushing sticks into fire and watching them burn away." One evening she wrote: "The secrets of life that are discovered from age to age are as hard to find as a knife lost in rushes." She sympathized with the American colonists and aroused by George Ill's banishment of traitorous Jack Wilkes...
...slang epithet equivalent to the slang phrase "putting on airs...