sobriquet

1 On a more downmarket show, you wouldn't use a word like "sobriquet", but University Challenge likes long, wordy questions – a contestant who thinks they're smart will butt in and give the wrong answer.

2 This provoked widespread debate about the role of intellectual property and earned Land the sobriquet “Champion of Patents”.

3 Martin refer to the conservative activists with the mocking sobriquet "sad puppies."

4 It was my husband’s Aunt Rifka who pinned the Space Age sobriquet on them.

5 Graham gives a candid account of her development from a dutiful daughter and wife to the “Iron Lady,” a sobriquet, we see, that owed more to the sexism of the day than to her character.

6 So began a long career photographing death, carnage and human suffering, often close up and in colour – a style that earned him a new sobriquet: "the Mexican Weegee".

7 At 54 Below, a club that has earned its sobriquet “Broadway’s Supper Club,” the ingenuous heartthrob Jeremy Jordan from “Bonnie and Clyde,” “Smash” and “The Last Five Years” continues an engagement through July 3.

8 Sensual minimalism might seem oxymoronic, but if there is a signature style of our era, that may be its proper sobriquet.

9 Richard Johnson of the Page Six gossip column often has tarred her with sobriquets like “the pushy publicist” or “perpetually petulant publicist.”

10 To Nashville people, that sobriquet conjures Johnny Cash, whose style was heavy on substance.

11 Mank refers to Welles, not entirely derisively, as “the boy genius,” an interesting echo of Thalberg’s sobriquet, which was “the boy wonder.”

12 And with that sobriquet, generations of women received the memo: to move independently in the world, outside and alone, can be a very dangerous thing.

13 Made of ragged, intensely colorful patches of paint, this pastoral scene has the kind of combustive energy that earned Matisse and his cohort the sobriquet “les fauves,” or “the wild beasts.”

14 Thalaivar literally means leader and is one of the sobriquets used to describe Rajinikanth.

15 Smith, who steadfastly denies categorization and especially disdains the sobriquet "Godmother of Punk," received the Founders Award at ASCAP's 27th annual pop music awards dinner honoring the writers and publishers of last year's most-performed songs.

16 Often described as "the race that stops a nation", the cup's sobriquet was now being applied to Qantas.

该赛事常常被描绘成“使国家停顿的赛事”，现在这个头衔要让位给澳航了。

17 Due to my self-aggrandizing tendency to brand my own writings with #urk, a sobriquet derived from my last name, I began to build an audience on this former isle in the Flevoland province.

18 Wilson's pumping, dynamic basslines had become one of the most identifiable components of the group's distinctive sound, earning him the sobriquet "the Godfather of the bass".

19 Justice remained eternally grateful for the naval officer’s sobriquet.

20 A photo of the bird, who shares sobriquets with the rapper Pitbull, is the most popular post on @petfindernames with more than 300,000 likes, and the bird has since been adopted.

1 浑名

tag nickname epithet agnomen byword byname

2 诨名

byname

3 绰号

to-name label tag nickname surname byword cognomen byname agnomen agname by-name epithet monicker soubriquet moniker smear word name handle puke

4 别名

by-name alias soubriquet

5 外号

moniker soubriquet nickname

6 假名

pseud. ps. ananym flag alias phony pseudonym kana bodger anonym soubriquet

7 化名

alias