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. Kristen Waggoner:

   It’s all about name calling and bullying and shaming people into shutting up.

2. Al Schmidt:

   After the president tweeted at me, by name, calling me out the way that he did, the threats became much more specific, much more graphic. And included not just me, by name, but included members of my family, by name, their ages, our address, pictures of our home. Just every bit of detail that you could imagine. That was what changed with that tweet.

3. 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.

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. Assistant State Attorney Nicole Chiappone:

   That's not a derogatory word, that's not an inflammatory word, that's not commenting on his character, it's not even name-calling, it's what he's charged with.