Synonyms for name calling
name call·ing

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1. name calling, namesnoun

   verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument

   "sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me"

   Synonyms:
   names

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1. Nicholas Colas:

   There's a lot of rhetoric out there, some of which feels like name-calling, all of which makes the situation read as worse than it used to be.

2. David Jordan:

   In the politics of the present, where we are into politics of name calling and insult... I think it's probably unwise for The BBC to get ourselves into a position where we're calling out people for being liars or being racist, what is really important is that we look at the things that people say, that we analyze them, that we describe them objectively and as analytically as we can and we call them out for what they are at the time.

3. Nikki Haley:

   Because there was literal name-calling going on in the election cycle, even with students less politically engaged, that strong language and the harsher crassness of the rhetoric may have had a more broad effect on these students. it's not just along ethnic and racial discrimination lines.

4. Kelli Davis:

   I tried to kindly and respectfully make things clear, but as things got more and more negative and more and more name calling, I felt that it was really important for people to understand that I have no part in that.

5. The Ohio governor:

   Right now, the divisiveness, the division, the name calling, it just doesn't go down well with me.