soubriquet

How To Use soubriquet In A Sentence

• So he may appreciate the paradox of his lightning ascent in his second calling – not to mention the mutterings of those press-box colleagues who have toiled diligently for years without recognition from their trade's association and remember the days when they called him Captain Grumpy, a soubriquet he did his best to live up to. US hard courts will reveal if Andy Murray's lapses are part of a cycle | Kevin Mitchell
• These nicknames of affection or derision, from the French slang soubriquet, “a chuck under the chin,” enlivened the political language of a previous era. No Uncertain Terms
• But, for the record, I prefer Michael Jackson's account, if for no other reason than he uses the word "soubriquet", which is pretty badass if you ask me. Archive 2009-08-01
• It is almost needless to add that this cane derives its 'soubriquet' of Australian Search Party
• His early stories were often existential reflections on the experience of war and flying, but later he became known as a fabricator of elegant, subversive plot-driven tales, earning him the soubriquet 'Master of the Macabre'. BroadwayWorld.com Videos
• Forget the honorary knighthood, you know you're famous when the French coin a Franglais soubriquet for you. Dom Ghosn Dom Ghosn
• Grubb enquired, using the foreshortened soubriquet the Japanese-American hated only marginally less than ET. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
• I have not done so because elsewhere a soubriquet is always explicitly accounted for in the Commentary, and here nothing is said. Psalms of the Sisters
• * The term committee in those ear'y days was sometimes applied even to the Continental Congress (see Jones 'Defence; and the veteran John Simeson, speaker of the authorized County Committees or Congresses.) On the other hand, the ancestral name of McKnitt was held by no family in the county, and he accepted the soubriquet from the mouth of those who held him in the highest esteem both in Church and State. Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians
• At the very least the man who earned the posthumous soubriquet Father of the Nation should have known.