Epithet

How did Vlad the Impaler get his epithet?

Tom was fired for using a racial epithet at work.

Sigurd was certainly foreign to Scandinavia; hence the epithet Hunnish, constantly applied to him, and the localising of the legend by the Rhine.

She would lean her head for hours on Beatrice's shoulder, only now and then applying to her some childish and endearing epithet.

Part of this process was the elaboration of new terms for the Jew, especially the increasingly popular epithet “kike”.

Counterprotesters shouted epithets as they walked by, but the opposing groups kept it nonviolent.

Politico reported that epithets appeared more than 251 times.

Her book includes an incisive discussion of misogyny on the New Right. [Laura K.] Field notes how “gynocracy” and “the longhouse” have become overwrought MAGA epithets for an unbearably feminized and pluralist society.

He was epitheted "the king of fools".