Bywords [noun]

Definition of Bywords:

saying

Synonyms of Bywords:


Opposite/Antonyms of Bywords:

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Sentence/Example of Bywords:

But he marred it all by a temper so ungovernable that in Paris there was current a byword, "Explosive as Garnache."

For years the names of oil king and iron master have been a hissing and a byword among the hot-heads in America.

A prince may be the byword of all Europe, yet he alone know nothing of it.

And besides, when folk talk of a country covered with troops, it's but a kind of a byword at the best.

Had not the justice of the strong become a byword and a loathing?

The name of Tiberius was a byword for impenetrable disguise.

For ages the “roads” of this country were a byword and a reproach to us.

Scotland too, till something better come, must have a Poor-law, if Scotland is not to be a byword among the nations.

The wind howls day and night, and the place is so well known for it that "vent de Furnes" is a byword.

In the course of a year he did this, committing such atrocities as made his name a byword over the whole of South America.