name calling

Example Sentences

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Cavuto questioned the purpose of the name-calling the vice president has faced from Republicans like Kennedy, calling it “petty.”

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2024

The entrepreneur, whose parents came to Britain from Sri Lanka in the 1980s and worked in the NHS, told the BBC "we need a grown-up discussion about immigration without name-calling".

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2024

The company stressed the need to be respectful: no trolling, no name-calling, no politics.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2024

If you’ve ever had a political discussion online, you can probably imagine the vitriol and name-calling that follow.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2024

And so from the pages of the newspapers to the pages of books the accusations and name-calling raged on.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy