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  1. name-callingnoun

    Abusive or insulting language.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of name-calling in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of name-calling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of name-calling in a Sentence

  1. Debbie Ramsey:

    It would be a shame if the Democrats win this election because of all the disputing and name-calling and the way they tend to act during debates.

  2. Kristen Waggoner:

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

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Kathryn Atkins:

    When people are at odds, and start name-calling, it's because they have no facts to back up their side of the conversation.


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  • навешивание ярлыковRussian

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