In the past, "wine consultant" was something of a generic label, used by everybody from salesmen seeking respectability to writers looking for work.

Mr. Eifman is astute enough to give his characters generic labels.

Although available in several colors, the original paper marbling black-and-white cover, with its generic label on the front, is the overwhelming favorite.

Still others use "pagan" as a generic label for their spiritual worldview, or employ no identifying label at all.

The term "Peyton Place" became a generic label for any community whose inhabitants have sordid secrets.

"Fremont" is really a generic label for a people who, like the land in which they lived, are not easily described or classified.

These typically bear the name of a single grape type, like chardonnay, rather than a generic label like chablis.

The feminists say this new generic label in textbooks will be less sexist and more tolerant.

This is likely to penalize high-quality beef products heavily as they would then be confused under a European generic label without explanation.

The inhabitants were stone age hunter-gatherers, to whom the Europeans assigned the generic label "Indians".