byname

• When I quite justifiably reproved him for referring to my aunt by so disrespectful a byname, he hastened to reassure me that everyone, simply everyone in the congregation spoke of her thus. —  TheMagazineofFantasyandScienceFiction,March2005
• As part of the arthouse scene in the '60s with Fellini, Bergman, et al., the Italian modernist composed spare, architectural reels on alienation that left some stumped with their pretentiousness (Andrew Sarris lambasted Antonioni with the byname "Antoni-ennui") and others stumping for more of his lovely, long-take compositions. —  Flavorpill New York Events
• Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (byname Der Henker: the hangman) was German political officer in the notorious Early life —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
• Barnabas was a Cypriote, Simeon's byname of Niger —  Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
• It was not so; and the byname by which I went behind my back confirmed it. —  David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona

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