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a descriptive or familiar name given instead of or in addition to the one belonging to an individual<King Richard I of England was given the very laudatory epithet “the Lion-Hearted”>— see nickname
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an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings<the school has a strict ban against the use of racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual epithets>— see insult
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