- name, epithet - a defamatory or abusive word or phrase; "sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me"
--1 is a kind of defamation, calumny, obloquy, traducement, hatchet job
--1 has particulars: smear word - epithet - descriptive word or phrase
--2 is a kind of word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, picture, characterization, characterisation