0 a person or thing that is very closely connected with a particular quality:
1 a name of a person or thing that is closely connected with a particular quality:
I had made it a low byword among low people.
Another byword here is "irreversibility" because lurking somewhere behind convergent outcomes are footprints leading back along different paths to different origins.
Unfortunately, maintenance can be a byword for neglect.
To that end, these societies and their members adopted "controversy" as their byword.
Its current aim is to develop 'parallel' or 'analogous' architectures which (like some paintings, say, or films) illuminate and explore conceptual domains not satisfactorily to be mapped bywords.
Those boroughs are a byword for hopeless housing administration.
They represent areas with outstanding examples of adult education centres — indeed those places are a byword for that.
However, flexibility should not be a byword for a diminution of standards or of the protection of workers' rights.
