Sentence examples for an epithet right from inspiring English sources

You know Democrats consider it an epithet, right?

Such approaches, often conceived for new audiences who are not from museum cultures, are now being dismissed as "politically correct" by establishment critics, using an epithet often associated with right-wing censure.

The son he used to call simply "The No 9" at Nottingham Forest has yet to earn the right to such an epithet, but this was another step in the right direction.

In one Montage of Heck scene, Jonathan Ross introduces Nirvana as "probably the biggest band in the world right now", an epithet that might now be used for One Direction.

In the right hands (and mouths) "gay" isn't an epithet, and dubbing something "the gayest" is a celebratory distinction, for me at least.

"The right created it and spits it out as an epithet; it has that tone, a sneering quality like they're hanging it around his neck," said Jeff Shesol, a former White House speechwriter under President Bill Clinton.

Moreover, unlike in most other places I've been in Afghanistan, like the north, where militias are strongly associated with warlordism and human rights abuses, in Marjah the term for militias, "arbaki," is not quite an epithet.

Why is it an epithet?

Back then, compromise was not an epithet.

It's an adjective not an epithet.

It's an epithet Youssef himself encourages.