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Name-calling

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Noun
  1. 1
    The use of derogatory labels in verbal attacks on a person or other entity. countable, uncountable

    "So inflammatory were the words of some preachers during these trying years that a resolution to silence, by mayoral proclamation, a continuation of name-calling from the pulpit was presented to the city council by one would-be pacifier."

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