Get to know Epithet better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like name or characterization.
Epithet meaning
- A term used to characterize a person or thing.
- A term used as a qualifier of the name of a deity in order to designate said deity in a particular aspect or role.
- A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.
Synonyms of Epithet
Using Epithet
- The main meaning on this page is: A term used to characterize a person or thing. | A term used as a qualifier of the name of a deity in order to designate said deity in a particular aspect or role. | A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.
- Useful related words include: name, characterization, picture, depiction.
- In the example corpus, epithet often appears in combinations such as: the epithet, an epithet, epithet of.
Context around Epithet
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Epithet
- In this selection, "epithet" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, racial, derogatory, yelling, jews, louder and actually stand out and add context to how "epithet" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a derogatory epithet for an and a racial epithet eh petit. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "epithet" sits close to words such as adversarial, archibald and ashraf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with epithet
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
What happens if a black person uses the epithet? (9 words)
A strongly worded epithet can bring them down easily. (9 words)
I confess, I’ve uttered the epithet a few times myself. (11 words)
Trump in recent weeks has increasingly lashed out at “left-wing mobs,” used a racist epithet to refer to the coronavirus and visited the nation’s southern border to spotlight progress on his 2016 campaign promise to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall. (44 words)
He named the anticolonial Négritude movement of French-speaking African and Caribbean writers in France, he said, after a white Frenchman shouted a racial epithet (“Eh, petit nègre!”) at him near the Place d’Italie in Paris in 1934. (39 words)
When the series debuted in 2017, Perry's character, Fred Andrews, was established as one of the most kindhearted characters and father figures in the fictional town — an epithet that lasted throughout his time on the show. (38 words)
What happens if a black person uses the epithet? (9 words)
Example sentences (20)
Epithet The term "Uncle Tom" is used as a derogatory epithet for an excessively subservient person, particularly when that person perceives their own lower-class status based on race.
A man in the bed of the truck can be heard yelling "(epithet) Jews" as well as homophobic and racial slurs.
My epithet was informed by her overall behaviour over the past six months, not this one act of leaving the Greens.
The minister loudly refused - in the middle of an open plan office - by applying the epithet to the impertinent requester.
Democrats have successfully framed this election as a contest between normal and “weird,” to recycle the cringeworthy epithet from the Harris-Walz peak of early September.
I confess, I’ve uttered the epithet a few times myself.
The customer was then filmed walking out of the post office and shouting the epithet louder while looking directly into Brumfield's camera.
The rationale behind providing them with this epithet is two-fold.
The woman hurled yet another epithet for female genitalia (why these are so popular is a conversation for another day).
Trump in recent weeks has increasingly lashed out at “left-wing mobs,” used a racist epithet to refer to the coronavirus and visited the nation’s southern border to spotlight progress on his 2016 campaign promise to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
What happens if a black person uses the epithet?
After joining the the SP-BSP-RLD alliance last week, Nishad had attacked Prime Minister by calling him a ‘jumlebaz’ and had used the same epithet for Adityanath.
He named the anticolonial Négritude movement of French-speaking African and Caribbean writers in France, he said, after a white Frenchman shouted a racial epithet (“Eh, petit nègre!”) at him near the Place d’Italie in Paris in 1934.
The May-Robbins WA was so bad as to qualify for the epithet of Carthaginian terms.
They invoked their favorite epithet for the Democrats of the new House — “socialist” — in arguing against the measure.
They throw the “F” bomb queer epithet at him, and push him around.
When the series debuted in 2017, Perry's character, Fred Andrews, was established as one of the most kindhearted characters and father figures in the fictional town — an epithet that lasted throughout his time on the show.
A strongly worded epithet can bring them down easily.
Calling the cruelest among us names such as "animal" or any other "dehumanizing" epithet actually protects humans.
Davie told investigators through his attorney that he never used the racial epithet and didn’t remember the golf cart comment at a camp in Ruidoso, New Mexico.
Common combinations with epithet
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the epithet 33×
- an epithet 11×
- epithet of 10×
- epithet for 9×
- this epithet 6×
- specific epithet 6×
- racial epithet 5×
- epithet the 4×
- epithet to 4×
- his epithet 3×