name-calling

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name-call·ing

(nām′kô′lĭng)

Verbal abuse; insulting language.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

name-calling

verbal abuse, esp as a crude form of argument

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Translations

name-calling

[ˈneɪmkɔːlɪŋ] N → insultos mpl, ofensas fpl

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

name-calling

n → Beschimpfung(en) f(pl), → Schimpferei(en) f(pl)

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