'Stinky' would have been a more appropriate nickname.

It was not an especially appropriate nickname.

Like Chip, Beak had an appropriate nickname.

Billy has the appropriate nickname "Catfish."

The idea, as I understood it, was to give a kid a nickname appropriate to his appearance or eccentricity of behavior, the crueler the better.

In the intervening years, gravity had done its thing to the point that jowls would have been a more appropriate nickname, but Cheeks had stuck.

The people who worked on that world had given it the singularly appropriate nickname of Slag.

'The Corporate Corridor' is a very appropriate nickname," Gomez said.

Foul smelling and ovenlike, the small room earned the appropriate nickname, "The Black Hole."

It is possible that the writer simply understood "Big Apple" as an appropriate nickname for any large city: