1. epithet - Noun
2. epithet - Verb
An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.
Term; expression; phrase.
To describe by an epithet.
Source: Webster's dictionaryChildren, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. Mary Wollstonecraft
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. Robert G. Ingersoll
The dismissal of our anger as a racial minority is worse than any slur or epithet because it undermines our ability to react to it. Margaret Cho
Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question. Charles Lamb
They call me a renegade. The epithet is inaccurate and undeserved. I cannot be faithless to a cause which I never have endorsed. Indeed, I am absolutely faithful to the only cause I espouse, which is my own welfare. I take pride in this unswerving loyalty! Jack Vance
Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil. Thomas Babington Macaulay