Epithets in a sentence

Dysphemistic epithets Animal names are frequently used as dysphemistic epithets.

Epithets Poseidon was known in various guises, denoted by epithets.

They are also given epithets, though these are not the traditional Homeric epithets: godly Antenor, upright Justice, reckless Outrage.

In September 2020, Embra Yoonie’s horrendously ugly David Hume Tower was imaginatively renamed 40 George Square, after a student campaign objecting to the philosopher’s offensive epithets and writings related to race.

It was the biggest sporting event of its time, attracting a crowd of nearly 20,000 people, the majority of them eager to see Johnson defeated as they screamed vile racial epithets.

Halprin’s attorneys argued that Vickers Cunningham, the former Dallas judge who presided over the trial, had used antisemitic slurs and racial epithets when referring to Halprin and other defendants.

She used her "oh, no she dih-int" AOC fingers to gesticulate in the faces of the Jewish family calling the girl "a whore" and other epithets.

During violent far-left protests Saturday afternoon in Portland, Oregon, members of the left-wing-media promoted group Antifa were seen taunting local police officers by, one, urging them to commit suicide, and two, referring to them with racial epithets.

He normally embraces derogatory epithets, like Grim Reaper and Cocaine Mitch, but he bristles at this one.

Just 2 weeks prior to this he made hostile epithets and profanity to President Trump.

Make hay while the sun shines; everyone for himself, God for us all; turn by turn Nigeria limited; are the other cynical epithets characterizing this despair.

Social media pages have filled with epithets aimed at the Orthodox community.

The messages contained racial epithets, and included a retweet of a message supporting Nazi Germany.

Which is why ordinarily, Scrutator would have been worried about all the harsh epithets now being deployed against Justice Mahase.

Although Kenyon students and student-athletes write their own significance into the labels “Lords” and “Ladies,” the social and historical implications of these epithets eclipse the more substantive nuances we give to them.

In the videos, the boy is seen throwing a basketball at Riley –– who is African American –– and directing racial epithets at him before the teacher loses his composure and swings at the teen.

But we are told that Ēl slew his own son Sadidus (a name that some commentators think might be a corruption of Shaddai, one of the epithets of the Biblical Ēl) and that Ēl also beheaded one of his daughters.

Descriptive epithets are a common literary device in many parts of the world, whereas kennings in this restricted sense are a distinctive feature of Old Norse and, to a lesser extent, Old English poetry.

Different cities often worshipped the same deities, sometimes with epithets that distinguished them and specified their local nature.

Epithets found in the provinces of the Roman Empire may identify Jupiter with a local deity or site (see syncretism ).