“In their view, the host used the term as an epithetic expression of frustration but not in an intentionally irreverent, blasphemous or irreligious way.”

“A bit further on when we gain Greenwicher Strasse, Liverpooler Strasse and Cambridger Strasse, we seem momentarily to be back in an epithetic Little England.”

“They tend to be epithetic, denigrating, even derisory in nature.”

“She took his cue, and continued the conversation as if he hadn't said anything epithetical.”

“It has been done, on occasion, by every Speaker who has ever sat in this Chair, because comments can be ironic or epithetical.”