name-caller
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Look, he’s everything our mothers told us not to be: a bully, braggart, whiner, liar and name-caller.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2024
My name is called; I follow the name-caller into a small room.
From Salon • Feb. 3, 2013
Harold LeClair Ickes, Secretary of the Interior and master of PWA, has established himself beyond compare as the champion name-caller of the New Deal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said Harold L. Ickes, public name-caller No. 1: "There is a power shortage now and a greater one in prospect."
From Time Magazine Archive
One must not expect a Roman noble to deign always to remember the names of humble persons—sometimes he actually did not—and therefore a slave, known as the "name-caller," announces each client in turn.
From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)
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