Such terms as "chiseler," "stuffed-shirt" and "weasel" were among the milder epithets, all directed at Harland.

Pazzo meant "crazy" and was among the mildest epithets available.

He glared - I smiled; hound was the very mildest epithet that had reached me through the open window.

His mildest epithet was "worms in a dog's entrails," and the mildest threat was "insects you shall be dung-beetles!"

"Banal" and "snapshots" were among the milder epithets applied to his seemingly casual images of Memphis and its surroundings.

It has become a relatively mild epithet in parts of the UK, but vulgar elsewhere.

"Aesthetic outrage," "monstrosity" are some of the milder epithets it has attracted.

Pushy, unprincipled, ignorant and shallow - those were some of the milder epithets the scientists at the Pew meeting applied to me and my fellow practitioners.

It includes a couple of mild epithets, some adult menace toward a child and combat scenes.

When does cooperation with a rival political party constitute betrayal, treason or even the milder epithet "collaboration"?