Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to an epithet; containing or consisting of epithets; characterized by epithets; abounding with epithets: as, the style is too epithetic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or abounding with, epithets.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to
epithets . - adjective linguistics Of or relating to
epithesis .
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Examples
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I honestly don't care that I'm called names over at the Swamp, or that they'd engage in obviously libelous epithetic screeds against me personally on top of that.
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We have epithetic - b in Plumb, the man who lived by the plum-tree and epithetic - p in Crump (Chapter II).
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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Is there no discussion about how blatantly and disparagingly racist the whole product, from its imagery to the use of the phrase "slave loofah," (3bd-the epithetic equivalent of the N-word in Arabic) is?
iToot Stream Somebody 2010
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Is there no discussion about how blatantly and disparagingly racist the whole product, from its imagery to the use of the phrase "slave loofah," (3bd-the epithetic equivalent of the N-word in Arabic) is?
iToot Stream Somebody 2010
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Is there no discussion about how blatantly and disparagingly racist the whole product, from its imagery to the use of the phrase "slave loofah," (3bd-the epithetic equivalent of the N-word in Arabic) is?
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But you have psychology yes, and you have psycho parathetics or epithetic inducements, do you not?
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The next one is even worse, because in THIS patently shameless rip-off scheme, the - (insert favorite epithetic description here) - Donks are taking aim at INDIVIDUAL'S 401K and IRA accounts.
RadioActive Chief 2008
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