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byword
1. scorn, a byword among the nations
2. The Bible makes mention of Rehab again, her name is used as an idiomatic byword
3. 37 And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations where the Lord shall lead you
4. The Irish saying ‘the craic’ was the byword for fun among the Irish
5. You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations
6. Tom Lee became a household name in the depression years of the 1930s when his catch phrase ‘You can count on Tom’ became a byword for honesty and integrity
7. His ‘Norway Operation’ became a byword for inept incompetence
8. His inexplicable debts were a byword in his circle; he was a debonair young man
9. For when I view them in turn, whether it be our chief hostess herself, whose good heart, whose too good heart, has become a byword with all who know her, or her sister, who seems to be gifted with perennial youth and whose singing must have been a surprise and a revelation to us all tonight, or, last but not least, when I consider our youngest hostess, talented, cheerful, hard-working and the best of nieces, I confess, Ladies and Gentlemen, that I do not know to which of them I should award the prize
10. I am positive when I say that if need were I could produce a cloud of witnesses to the excellence of her noble exercitations which, so far from being a byword, should be a glorious incentive in the human breast
11. The second Sulaco regiment, to whom he was presenting this flag, was going to show its valour in a contest for order, peace, progress; for the establishment of national self-respect without which—he declared with energy—"we are a reproach and a byword amongst the powers of the world
12. Safety at any price became the byword
13. He’s a byword of reproach through Europe