Noun : His crimes will make him a byword through the ages. From Dictionary.com.
'All's well' over and over again; 'twas a kind of byword with him. From Wordnik.com. [Kent Knowles: Quahaug] Reference
Only last month, Brown described Afghanistan as a "byword" for corruption. From Wordnik.com. [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Mrs. Barraclough's devotion was a byword in the parish. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
'Expert testimony' has long been a byword and reproach. From Wordnik.com. [The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt] Reference
Her favorite adjective is a Methodist byword: inclusive. From Wordnik.com. [Soulful Matters] Reference
V. Harding, whose name is a byword in the sporting field. From Wordnik.com. [Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration] Reference
"More sordid than Patrocles" had become a byword at Athens. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
Nursery 'was a byword on the coast as long as we staid there. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
Bowing in the temple of Rimmon has become a byword and a reproach. From Wordnik.com. [Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters] Reference
Britain from her place among the nations, to make her name a byword and. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
Englishman who is a byword amongst even those who scarcely know Dickens. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
He made a byword of his marriage and brought lifelong sorrow on his wife. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The mistake you made in my name came to be a joke and byword after I went home. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
Shall I become a byword among the people, as false to the memory of my true lord?. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from the Odyssey] Reference
He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
Back in the Middle Ages, the Inquisition was a byword for fear and terror in Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Secrets of the Inquisition] Reference
Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: a shaking of the head among the people. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
His name became a byword, his memory odious, and we, his parents, dared not mention him. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
"It's the lily-fingered people of your stripe who make reform a byword and a laughing-stock.". From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Your name'll be a byword and you'll be flat broke, a joke and an object of contempt the nation over. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Gold] Reference
It has become hackneyed and corrupted; it has taken a professional taint; it has almost become a byword. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Indeed, much of its relevance lies in her account of her life before Darfur became a byword for genocide. From Wordnik.com. [Piercing the Silence] Reference
And thou shalt be lost, as a proverb and a byword to all people, among whom the Lord shall bring thee in. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy The Challoner Revision] Reference
Production and more production was the byword during the war and still is during the transition from war to peace. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Puritans, those rather dull people who have always been the byword for those who are more popularly known as Prigs. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
No man was shrewder than Machiavelli, and the moral sense of mankind has rebelled against him and made him a byword. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
The tiger hath a lovely sleek body with a furious heart; the serpent for its creeping artfulness is a byword for deceit. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
And he became a byword and a wonder in the world, till the heart of his mother almost broke with the swelling of its own pride. From Wordnik.com. [Bubbles of the Foam] Reference
Henceforth the violent denunciation of theological opponents pursued him to the grave, and left his name a byword to the orthodox. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Democracy] Reference
On this side of the Atlantic, the byword is dysfunctional government, using the filibuster to bring the government to a dead stop. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons From Britain's New Government] Reference
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