name-calling
See also: namecalling
English
editEtymology
editCompare call names.
Noun
editname-calling (countable and uncountable, plural name-callings)
- The use of derogatory labels in verbal attacks on a person or other entity.
- 1940, Bessie Louise Pierce, A History of Chicago, volume 2, page 389:
- So inflammatory were the words of some preachers during these trying years that a resolution to silence, by mayoral proclamation, a continuation of name-calling from the pulpit was presented to the city council by one would-be pacifier.
- 2011, Mike Mose, One Drop Too White, page 107:
- The next day things got heated in the schoolyard as the name calling began. It was three against one.
- 2023 April 27, Jim Robbins, Mike Baker, Jacey Fortin, “A Transgender Lawmaker Is Exiled as Montana G.O.P. Flexes New Power”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- […] a former Republican lawmaker who left the Legislature earlier this year after she clashed with party leaders over a series of proposed transgender bills and closed-door meetings, she said, devolved into yelling and name-calling.
Related terms
edit- call names (verb)
- name-caller
Translations
editabusive or insulting language
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See also
editSee also
editReferences
edit- “name-calling”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.