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What does name-calling mean?

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Noun
  1. The use of abusive or insulting language.
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Instead of having a calm, rational debate about legitimate issues, he started name-calling and casting insults.
Most of the incidents involved name-calling, verbal abuse and racist comments, rather than physical assaults.
He has given up removing the graffiti daubed on the walls and sadly admits that taunts and name-calling have become a staple part of his life.
In all fairness, these issues do not require character assassination, lying and name-calling.
The resort to ridicule and name-calling betrays an angry wish that this problem would simply go away.
It gets to be quite fun, in an awful kind of way, to spot the childish name-calling, the insult words that don't mean anything.

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