0 a name given to someone or something that is not their or its real or official name:
These charms have earned the television show's host the sobriquet "the thinking woman's heartthrob".
Rather, losing deities could be referred to by a number of negative sobriquets.
Rather than the ideological diversity and majority status relationships turning out to be spurious, the present analysis suggests that it is the equilibrium robustness effect which merits that sobriquet.
It is the sort of phrase which, if used before a judge, would probably receive the sobriquet that it was vacuous at best, meaningless at worst.
We know that a coherent scheme of tax credits, negative income tax or basic income guarantee—to refer to but three of its sobriquets in recent years—will cost money.
This salient characteristic is of sufficient familiarity that the sobriquet can become more familiar than the original name.
There are others who have contested several elections (see for example) unsuccessfully, but not necessarily known by the sobriquet.
His name pir was probably originally a nickname as it means shouter, and used as his sobriquet.
The sobriquet followed her when she turned pro.
