name calling
Example Sentences
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Perhaps the age of social media, with its insatiable appetite for new content to keep people amused has increased the trend towards name calling.
From BBC • May 13, 2025
Was it all the golf he played, all the TV he watched, all the name calling?
From Salon • Oct. 26, 2024
Earlier Saturday, at an appearance in Coralville, Haley flubbed the Iowa star’s name, calling her “Caitlin Collins,” perhaps with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in mind.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2023
Expect brief verbal arguments between family and friends, but no name calling.
From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2023
It’s as though she were saying it deliberately, Eleanor thought, telling the house she knows its name, calling the house to tell it where we are; is it bravado?
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
