name calling

Example Sentences

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The party's frustration is obvious, and it goes beyond its anger at the party political name-calling that saw the Ulster Unionists describe the Alliance last week as "divided, desperate and drifting towards nationalism".

From BBC

Paxton accused O’Rourke’s group of paying “Beto bribes,” and for weeks, across social media and in press releases, the state attorney general mustered all of his name-calling bravado, claiming that he would put Beto behind bars and shut down his “radical left-wing” organization.

From Slate

And so, in that world, all his bluff and bluster and name-calling scores points, perhaps in his primary contest against Sen. John Cornyn.

From Slate

So I’m just curious if there’s some weird middle ground that dissenting justices and lower-court judges need to find so that it doesn’t look like name-calling or editorializing?

From Slate

But it’s fair to say that Reagan never indulged in outright name-calling or hateful invective, stressed his desire for negotiation over confrontation and left the nuclear saber-rattling to subordinates.

From Salon