call names

verb

call names

verb

1

To use abusive or insulting language; to engage in name-calling.

[A]s [US president Donald Trump] turns up the pressure – calling the Fed chair [Jerome Powell] names and questioning his acumen – he’s ignited a firestorm in legal and financial circles.2025 April 21, Laurent Belsie, “Markets falter as Trump attacks Fed’s independence – and its chair”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

Related terms: call someone every name in the book, call someone everything but a child of God, name-call

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