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epithetical
adjective as in disparaging
Strongest matches
Strong match
Weak matches
preposition as in of
Weak matches
- about
- appertaining to
- appropriate to
- as concerns
- as regards
- attributed to
- away from
- based on
- belonging to
- characterized by
- coming from
- concerning
- connected with
- consisting of
- containing
- going from
- in reference to
- in regard to
- like
- made from
- out from
- out of
- peculiar to
- pertaining to
- proceeding from
- referring to
- regarding
- related to
- showing
Example Sentences
The Savage Mind, by the way, is an extraorinary work, despite its epithetical title.
Instead it will enable him to make hay while the epithetical sun is shining.
And many of the early epithetical uses refer either to women or to men who behave as women.
Though Shakespeare bears away the prize among these epithetical allotments, I suspect that his immortality—here positively assigned to him—was owing to the honour of the recent edition by Rowe.
I must be content merely to call by name upon a few of the principal of these “fair varieties,” and allow their prototypes in the reader’s imagination to answer for themselves; for the Poets, those purloiners of all public property that is worth possessing, have long precluded us plain prosers from being epithetical in regard to Roses, without incurring the imputation of borrowing that from them, which they first borrowed from their betters, the Roses themselves.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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