name-call|ing

name-call|ing
name-call|ing «NAYM K lihng», noun.
the act of giving a bad name to; an attacking the name of; defamation: »

Name-calling—giving an idea a bad label—is used to make us reject and condemn the idea without examining the evidence (Ogburn and Nimkoff).


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