namecall

present singular third person namecalls · participle present namecalling · participle past namecalled · past namecalled

1. alternativeAlternative form of name-call.

   GM [General Motors] namecalled Chevy’s Ford-beating sales in its press release.

   2025 June 11, Ben Shimkus, “Ford slips down sales list as century-old nemesis makes fun of slump”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2025

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   America’s national psyche is troubled today, although we hide it in multiple ways. We namecall, hide behind code words, pass the buck.

   1972 October 29, “The price is very high; the price of delay is vastly higher: Theodore M[artin] Hesburgh”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 May 2022

   “I don’t want to namecall, but I’ve given up,” Todd replied. “I’ve handed my credibility to a handful of journalists over there who’ve never reciprocated when times were tough. When times were tough for them, I went out of my way to defend a couple of them.”

   2025 February 27, Justin Baragona, “Bret Baier fires back at Chuck Todd for claiming he ‘now just wants to have a tee time with the president’”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2025