| But high quality is the byword here, so stay away from those cloudy dime-store magnifying glasses. |
| 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. |
| Garbage piled up in the streets and the place became a byword for dirt and danger. |
| The American Revolutionary's 1748 remark stands as a byword for industrial capitalism's hurry-up ethic. |
