Calling someone "a disgrace" is not gratuitous naming calling.
Calling someone "a thick cunt" is.

One of my pet peeves I'm afraid. Calling someone a thick cunt may well be gratuitous name calling but it is quite obvious the callee is not a particularly dense version of female genitalia. The term is therefore nonsense for all to see and can be discounted. Calling someone a disgrace IS ALSO name calling, gratuitous or otherwise, but it gives an air of respectability. The term may, therefore be treated as a serious slur on the character of the callee.

I find that the 'respectable' name calling, that you advocate as OK, is in fact more damaging, is a sneaky way of trying to besmirch someone and is, in fact, the type of name calling that should not be tolerated.

So there, you snotty faced heap of parrot droppings.

:D tG