Word: epithetic
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...kept me browsing agreeably for a week. I confess that I was more interested in gathering your own opinions than those of the innumerable professional psychologists whom you review and whose theses seem to me almost entirely verbal. In describing or judging a person or his life each epithet we use has slightly different connotations but is there any reason for trying to define exactly what each of these epithets ought to indicate everywhere? I doubt that particular instincts or organs need be found in people for each conventional quality. Still in proposing to limit each to specific function...
...epithet plucked from a newspaper caption over a picture of ill-dressed demonstrators: "The shirtless ones who roam our streets." The Peróns caught up the sneer as a weapon...
Nell brought to the feverish, pale-blooded court of Charles a throb of natural England. The tales of her fishwife eloquence in high places made her-in a phrase that was intended as an epithet but became an accolade-"the darling strumpet of the crowd." Once, for instance, she was so proud of her new petticoats that right in the presence of the French ambassador, she lifted them one by one. In line of duty, the Frenchman sat down and wrote a report to his foreign minister back home: "I never in all my life saw such thorough cleanliness, neatness...
Next morning, McKinney snapped: "McCormick's statement will be retracted, or else." The Tribune refused to retract, but it dropped its epithet "crook" in favor of "get-rich-quick boy," and settled back to survey the rift that had been made between Chicago's Democrats and the new man Harry Truman had run in to boss the National Committee...
...your April 30 report about Mr. Ivor Brown's [resurrected words] you gave the sample word "amygdaline" as a fitting epithet for ladies who are "almondlike" blondes...