Epithet
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Three decades ago, the radical left used the term "American empire" as an
epithet
.
More example sentences with word epithet
Now by taking the biblical
epithet "
abomination" and attaching it to the ultimate image of innocence, a baby, this joke short circuits the emotional wiring behind the debate and it leaves the audience with the opportunity, through their laughter, to question its validity.
But the depiction of ideas as being somehow “un-American” has always been an epithet, not an argument.
If free trade is to regain the support of statesmen who now hesitate over liberalizing trade with developing countries, the myths that turn outsourcing into an
epithet
must be countered.
Unlike in France, however, the word “socialist” is an
epithet
for most Americans.
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