How to Use name-calling in a Sentence

name-calling

noun

• The Fed, for its part, stays largely out of the muck of name-calling.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 8 Aug. 2024
• Well, except for the bad stuff — the armchair experts, the name-calling on social media, the chorus and the doubt.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• Taped in April, the three-parter included plenty of name-calling.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2024
• Taped in April, the three-parter included plenty of name-calling.
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024
• Just name-calling and false statements as to the origin of the prosecution.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 15 June 2024
• Amid the name-calling, however, Scott Stephen of Glendale made a point that a few others echoed.
  — Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 4 Sep. 2024
• Yes, but: His statement after the shooting had its own name-calling.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 14 July 2024
• Guys, go ahead, bring on the racist and misogynistic name-calling and dog whistles.
  — Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 29 July 2024
• What has happened to Black players has been a litany of name-calling and threats, to the point that some teams have had to increase security.
  — Susan M. Shaw, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
• Taped in April, the three-part special included plenty of name-calling.
  — Farai Bennett, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
• After an ensuing back-and-forth about name-calling, Stahl offered to move on.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2023
• The issue of violence — not yelling or name-calling, but violence — should not be swept under the rug.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Oct. 2023
• Meanwhile, the ruling also did not stop the name-calling that has long accompanied SB9 and SB10.
  — Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 24 May 2024
• The company stressed the need to be respectful: no trolling, no name-calling, no politics.
  — Nico Grant, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• That led to criticism that Salazar was acting like the Cuban regime and devolved later into name-calling.
  — Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2024
• Johnny and Delbert went over the school rules: no refunds, no talking back to your teachers, no name-calling, no drugs, no leaving trash inside the trucks.
  — Emily Gogolak, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• With no clear path forward, the Republican party has resorted to name-calling and finger-pointing, much to the glee of of late-night TV writers.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2023
• Something that used to be name-calling, an embarrassment, on a bus or a playground and might end up in a fight, now has a platform that’s shared and reshared and causes a sense of trauma all by itself.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
• After a week of blame-shifting, name-calling and protests, New York politicians are coming to terms with the reality of housing and caring for thousands of new migrants.
  — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 13 May 2023
• It wasn’t marked by the usually aggressive name-calling or overt annoyance.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 19 July 2023
• Overall, the exchanges were polite and substantive in a debate free of name-calling or hostility.
  — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2023
• There were frequent punishments, as well as pressure to sing the Russian anthem, bullying and name-calling by other students, the children said.
  — Oleksandr Chubko Daniel Berehulak, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023
• For whatever reason the goofy insult stuck, seemingly enraging GOP politicians who know a thing or two about name-calling.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2024
• Trump has been the aggressor with his lies, anger, childish name-calling and autocratic behavior.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 21 July 2024
• My partner is not physically abusive but checks a lot of other boxes: yelling, vicious anger, name-calling, silent treatments.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
• But at a town hall hosted by the network on Wednesday night, Mr. Trump, the Republican front-runner in the 2024 presidential campaign, resumed the lies and name-calling that marked his presidency.
  — Marie Solis, New York Times, 14 May 2023
• The researchers spent four years investigating elephant name-calling, including 14 months of fieldwork in Kenya.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2024
• And what is important is that there is a president who actually brings values and a perspective that is about lifting people up and not beating people down and name-calling.
  — Maya Marchel Hoff, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2024
• But aside from name-calling, liberals in the legal field struggled to react to what was essentially a political problem.
  — Ian MacDougall, Harper's Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
• Your job as her boss is to identify and articulate when her behavior crosses the line from boisterous to bullying, such as sarcasm, name-calling and mockery.
  — Karla L. Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Feb 2025