Word: epithetic
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...Death so widespread could bring the virtual collapse of a British agricultural economy already near bankruptcy because of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow" disease, which originated in Britain. An Irish government minister went so far as to call Britain "the leper of Europe," an epithet that brought grim nods of agreement elsewhere in Europe...
...have a systematic program for reading publications like TIME," says Pickett, "looking for examples of new words and new uses of old words." This knowledge is unsettling. Take "pizza face," a hurtful name once hurled at me as an acne-afflicted teen. Never do I want to see this epithet enshrined in a major dictionary, and yet by using it, as I just did, I've probably guaranteed its inclusion in the next edition...
...will produce a 209-page report pillorying the Clinton administration for its handling of Russia. The main target? Al Gore, who gets two chapters all to himself - one concerning the bilateral commission he chaired with former Russian prime minister and Gazprom magnate Viktor Chernomyrdin, the other on the "barnyard epithet" Gore reportedly scrawled across a CIA report alleging Chernomyrdin's corrupt activities. These are part of a broader pattern of administration errors that have brought warm U.S.-Russian relations in 1992 to a frosty atmosphere now, the report alleges...
...worst fears about the candidate: that he was old, had old policies and was running a faltering campaign. The same might be said here too for Bush. The ad makes him look underhanded and excessively juvenile in a frat-boy kind of way. Coming after last week's barnyard epithet, it makes the "change the tone, bring honor and dignity" crusade look a little thin...
...rough-around-the-edges tabloid went a bit schizophrenic in its coverage: In a box dissecting the candidates' Labor Day activities, the Post printed "asshole" in its early editions, although not in the larger article describing the flub. In a reprint of the box, editors substituted "a------" for the epithet...