name-calling

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Etymology

Compare call names.

Noun

name-calling (countable and uncountable, plural name-callings)

  1. 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, →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.

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