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"ref": "1940, Bessie Louise Pierce, A History of Chicago, volume 2, page 389",
"text": "So inflammatory were the words of some preachers during these trying years that a resolution to silence, by mayoral proclamation, a continuation of name-calling from the pulpit was presented to the city council by one would-be pacifier.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Mike Mose, One Drop Too White, page 107",
"text": "The next day things got heated in the schoolyard as the name calling began. It was three against one.",
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},
{
"ref": "2023 April 27, Jim Robbins, Mike Baker, Jacey Fortin, “A Transgender Lawmaker Is Exiled as Montana G.O.P. Flexes New Power”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "[…] a former Republican lawmaker who left the Legislature earlier this year after she clashed with party leaders over a series of proposed transgender bills and closed-door meetings, she said, devolved into yelling and name-calling.",
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"word": "call names"
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{
"word": "call someone every name in the book"
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{
"word": "mudslinging"
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"word": "تنابز بالألقاب"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"word": "罵人"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "màrén",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"word": "骂人"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
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"word": "gescheld"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"word": "nimittely"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Beschimpfung"
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"alt": "わるぐち",
"code": "ja",
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"roman": "waruguchi",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"word": "悪口"
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"alt": "あくば",
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "akuba",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"word": "悪罵"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "xingamento"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obzyvánije",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"tags": [
"childish",
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],
"word": "обзыва́ние"
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"roman": "oxáivanije",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
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"word": "оха́ивание"
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"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
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"word": "поноше́ние"
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"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
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"feminine"
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"word": "брань"
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"roman": "očernítelʹstvo",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "очерни́тельство"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"word": "insultar"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "lájka",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
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"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
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"ref": "1940, Bessie Louise Pierce, A History of Chicago, volume 2, page 389",
"text": "So inflammatory were the words of some preachers during these trying years that a resolution to silence, by mayoral proclamation, a continuation of name-calling from the pulpit was presented to the city council by one would-be pacifier.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Mike Mose, One Drop Too White, page 107",
"text": "The next day things got heated in the schoolyard as the name calling began. It was three against one.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 April 27, Jim Robbins, Mike Baker, Jacey Fortin, “A Transgender Lawmaker Is Exiled as Montana G.O.P. Flexes New Power”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "[…] a former Republican lawmaker who left the Legislature earlier this year after she clashed with party leaders over a series of proposed transgender bills and closed-door meetings, she said, devolved into yelling and name-calling.",
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"label"
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[
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"translations": [
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"word": "تنابز بالألقاب"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"word": "罵人"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "màrén",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"word": "骂人"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "gescheld"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"word": "nimittely"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Beschimpfung"
},
{
"alt": "わるぐち",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "waruguchi",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"word": "悪口"
},
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"alt": "あくば",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "akuba",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"word": "悪罵"
},
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "xingamento"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obzyvánije",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"tags": [
"childish",
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"word": "обзыва́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oxáivanije",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "оха́ивание"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ponošénije",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "поноше́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "branʹ",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "брань"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "očernítelʹstvo",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "очерни́тельство"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"word": "insultar"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "lájka",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ла́йка"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "obzyvánnja",
"sense": "abusive or insulting language",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "обзива́ння"
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"word": "name-calling"
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