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character assassination

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character assassination
n.
A vicious personal verbal attack, especially one intended to destroy or damage a public figure's reputation.

character assassin n.

character assassination
n
the act of deliberately attempting to destroy a person's reputation by defamatory remarks
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Noun1.character assassination - an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation
calumniation, calumny, defamation, hatchet job, traducement, obloquy - a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions


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Stone's ``counter-myth'' to the establishment's Kennedy liquidation story earned him vicious character assassination.
Levin distributed copies of his article, "Pro-Israeli McCarthyism: When Character Assassination Replaces Political Dialogue," (see January 1990 Washington Report, p.
He's so quick to condemn the Republican politics of character assassination.
 
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