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catchword

noun as in motto

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The idea that jazz has become a catchword for pomposity is painful for those of us who care deeply about this music.

Whenever we take up a new idea as a crowd, we at once turn it into a catchword and a fad.

It used to be a catchword of naval correspondents that "submarine cannot fight submarine."

“Unclean,” he muttered, recalling a catchword of the world he gazed upon.

Despots obtain their mastery over the crowd by the sword: demagogues by the catchword.

A man who has done that has seen England--not the name or the map or the rhetorical catchword, but the thing.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to catchword, such as: byword, catchphrase, maxim, password, refrain, and shibboleth.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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