Example sentences for: name-calling

How can you use “name-calling” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Wicked Witch, especially, uses terms of endearment ( my little pretty, my fine gentlemen ) when addressing others; but her menacing face and gestures, her vicious sarcasm, her screaming laughter, and her saccharine voice while uttering those polite-sounding addresses and scary death-threats are much more effective and nasty than simple name-calling would be.

  • Would you permit Democrats to be vilified in similar name-calling?

  • It will be noted, that the grouping of the numbers differs from country to country: the US retains xxx-xxxx, presumably as a hangover from the old days of telephone name-calling; in Britain, the (older) five-digit and the (newer) six-digit numbers are written solid: xxxxx(x); on the Continent, six-digit numbers are written in sets of two: xx-xx-xx.

  • From Robert Bork to Clarence Thomas to John Tower to Jim Wright to Bill Clinton, recent politics has centered on "ethics" and brutal name-calling.

  • Newspapers and commentators solemnly observe that this riot of negative ads and name-calling has cost $40 million (roughly $25 million from D'Amato and the Republican Party, the balance from Schumer and the Democrats).


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