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
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
After the controversy Beatty filed a slander suit against the name-caller, Jerry Papenfuss.
From Time Magazine Archive
After they have been received by the host, the "name-caller" leads them to their places, according to such order of precedence as Silius chooses to pre-arrange.
From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
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