character assassination

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

character assassin n.

character assassination

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an attempt to destroy someone's good reputation by slander or deliberate misrepresentation of his or her views: he described the accusation as `an appalling piece of character assassination'

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character assassination - an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation

assassination, blackwash

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.

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Levin distributed copies of his article, "Pro-Israeli McCarthyism: When Character Assassination Replaces Political Dialogue," (see January 1990 Washington Report, p.

Jerry Levin kicks off book tour by Zaitoon, S.B.A. / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

He's so quick to condemn the Republican politics of character assassination.

Sanders just another politician by Stekel, Peter / The Progressive

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