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Garbage piled up in the streets and the place became a byword for dirt and danger.
Since he first gained national prominence 25 years ago as an earnest left-wing firebrand, his name has been a byword for probity and decency.
But high quality is the byword here, so stay away from those cloudy dime-store magnifying glasses.
Community work has become a byword for slap-happy mismanagement of people's sentences.
I think most regard such lunges for underdog status, at least in relation to a political contest, as a byword.
It has become a magnet for avant-gardists who want to hang out in a place that has become a byword for New York's alternative arts scene.
The Government Information Service had long been a byword for incompetence.
And so to see a club like York City, once a byword for financial prudence and parsimony, to be staring over the abyss is a mortal blow.
The cloak of senatorial courtesy has become a stench in the nostrils and a byword in the mouths of all honest citizens of the land.
The American Revolutionary's 1748 remark stands as a byword for industrial capitalism's hurry-up ethic.
Scotland could become an international byword for backwardness, intolerance and prejudice if that's what its elected representatives want.
This site is becoming the byword for solid, objective commentary on technology companies for the growing number of technology stock investors.
His intense, poetic depictions of northern scenery have become a byword for a melancholic, spiritually inspired attitude to nature.
It has become a byword for elegant and difficult exercises, especially on the pommel horse.
From the outset of operations, pay for performance has been a byword at Novartis.
But, instead, the plucky teenager is an academic high-flier and the life and soul of his school, where his name is a byword for good natured generosity.
Literate North India, for its part, laments the transformation of a Delhi that was once a byword for elegant poetry, Mughal manners and courtly civilisation.
During his two-decade rule, Ethiopia went from being a byword for starvation to a substantial food exporter.
Take Lagos, the commercial capital, long a byword for chaos and skulduggery.
The industry became a byword for mendacity, secrecy and profligacy with taxpayers' money.
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The mistake you made in my name came to be a joke and byword after I went home.
Was he so weak, then, as to return to the poison that had made him the byword of clodhoppers?
They will hunt him out of the village, they will refuse him food, they will make him a byword, a scorn.
It has become a byword among the people as a malodorous cesspool.
In this respect we are a byword among the peoples of the world.
I knew a wise man that had it for a byword, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.
And besides, when folk talk of a country covered with troops, it's but a kind of a byword at the best.
Even Norway, that byword for Scandinavian imperturbability, has its hands befouled by scandal.
There is no longer a Popish tyrant on the throne of England, and by to-morrow noon, his name shall be a byword in this very street, where ye would make it a word of terror.
His name is also a byword for a drinking utensil often used by children.
In a word delivered on the occasion, Husseini considered that the National Pact document was the byword of the principle governing the constitution ever since its drafting.
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