Examples of 'byword' in a sentence
Meaning of "byword"
byword (noun) - Refers to a phrase, term, or expression that is widely recognized and often used as a typical example or representation of something
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- A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase.
- A characteristic word or expression; a word or phrase associated with a person or group.
- Someone or something that stands as an example (i.e. metonymically) for something else, by having some of that something's characteristic traits.
- An object of notoriety or contempt, scorn or derision.
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His sprightliness is a byword among his friends.
Mother must have translated if word byword.
It subsequently became a byword for democratic norms.
Byword is a favourite for many writers.
We would have become a byword for incompetence.
My business byword has always been to underpromise and overdeliver.
Delilah is the established byword for treachery.
It is a byword for oppression and abuse dressed up as law.
A reinterpretation of the reinterpretation as a byword for hope.
Your name is a byword among dealers and collectors.
Provence has long been a byword for.
His name became a byword for a swaggering fool.
Lifelong guidance counselling is the byword.
Your name is a byword among dealers.
I will make your name a byword.
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And that is a byword for reliability.
It is in the rear compartment that luxury was the byword.
Rosenbauer is a byword for technical progress.
Severe dyslexia does not have to be a byword for failure.
It became a byword for urban decline.
But which may in the future become a musical byword.
His name became a byword for radical heresy.
Vigilance must be our byword.
It is the byword that directs all our action.
Internalization has become a byword everywhere.
And that is a byword for reliability and motoring pleasure.
Swiss made has long been a byword for quality.
You are a byword for terror all over this world.
The star has given rise to a byword to winning trophies.
The byword here is to be alert.
Partnership is becoming a byword of this government.
Change is the byword of the campaign and the definition of your strategy.
Its name has become a byword for government.
The events aroused so much passion that his name became an instant byword.
Relevancy is the byword of a good response.
Indeed he had become a byword.
His own byword was discretion.
Protecting our economies or national agriculture is not a byword for protectionism.
The case is thus a byword for an interminable legal proceeding.
Kipling is in the peculiar position of having been a byword for fifty years.
Moncler is usually a byword for fashionable out of doors sportswear.
The family was heaped with abuse and became a byword for disrepute.
Towton became a byword for the horrors of the battlefield.
Bartleby will admit that his own desk is a byword for clutter.
Became a byword in our department.
The majority of available jobs are found through networking and byword of mouth.
Inside it is the byword in comfort.
Byword or shorthand, it has become a generic term.
Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Teamtischer is a byword for individual stand design and perfect manufacturing.
