epithetical

I am neither a breed, nor of the epithetical persuasion you charge me with.

GoodFather's Notes Gary Justis 2010

"The Enthusiast" and "The Pleasures of Melancholy," "in the allegoric, descriptive, alliterative, epithetical, hyperbolical, and diabolical style of our modern ode wrights and monody-mongers," form which I extract

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

Mr. Smouch to produce; for while Sam, anxious to return the compliment, was grinding that gentleman's body against the door-post, the principal crept past, and made his way to the bar, whither Sam, after bandying a few epithetical remarks with Mr. Smouch, followed at once.

The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841

This last push had the effect which it was intended by the experienced Mr. Smouch to produce; for while Sam, anxious to return the compliment, was grinding that gentleman's body against the door-post, the principal crept past, and made his way to the bar, whither Sam, after bandying a few epithetical remarks with Mr. Smouch, followed at once.

The Pickwick papers 1836

I find her noun-y, epithetical, folksy manner of speech condescending to our collective intelligence.

Austinist 2008

I find her noun-y, epithetical, folksy manner of speech condescending to our collective intelligence.

Austinist 2008

Instead: it is "her being," her existence, that is a power in itself: a form of presence needing no epithetical content. [

Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

Mr. Smouch to produce; for while Sam, anxious to return the compliment, was grinding that gentleman’s body against the door – post, the principal crept past, and made his way to the bar, whither Sam, after bandying a few epithetical remarks with Mr. Smouch, followed at once.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

Rob’s post containing the n-word in an epithetical context came in the wake of a trip he took to Jamaica.

June 2006 2006

Rob’s post containing the n-word in an epithetical context came in the wake of a trip he took to Jamaica.

Robert Smith 2006