- name-calling
- call (someone) names - to use impolite or unpleasant words to describe someone.
If you think about all that name-calling that goes on in school playgrounds, kids can be very cruel.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
name-calling
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Name calling — is a phenomenon studied by a variety of academic disciplines from anthropology, to child psychology, to politics. It is also studied by rhetoricians, and a variety of other disciplines that study propaganda techniques and their causes and effects … Wikipedia
name-calling — name .calling n [U] when people use unpleasant words to describe someone in order to insult or upset them ▪ playground teasing including name calling … Dictionary of contemporary English
name-calling — [nām′kôl΄iŋ] n. the use of disparaging or abusive names in attacking another name caller n … English World dictionary
name-calling — name ,calling noun uncount the act of saying insulting things to or about someone … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
name-calling — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun : the use of opprobrious designations especially to win an argument or to induce rejection or condemnation (as of a person or project) without due and unimpassioned consideration of relevant facts the campaign degenerated into … Useful english dictionary
name-calling — n. to engage in, go in for, resort to name calling * * * [ neɪmˌkɔːlɪŋ] go in for resort to name calling to engage in … Combinatory dictionary
name-calling — noun (U) the act of saying nasty things about someone: children subjected to jibes and name calling … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
name-calling — /ˈneɪm kɔlɪŋ/ (say naym kawling) noun abusive remarks directed at an opponent rather than at the argument put forward: the interview degenerated into mere name calling … Australian-English dictionary
name calling — See: CALL NAMES … Dictionary of American idioms
name calling — See: CALL NAMES … Dictionary of American idioms
