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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
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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Since her split from Pete we've had the 'I've moved on and I'm stronger' routine from her, the 'he was a swine to me' character assassination and now we've got her coming over all vulnerable and inviting sympathy.
Meet the 'real' Katie by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
PML-N would not flinch out from its stance regarding trial against former President Pervez Musharraf and a specific group should close its character assassination against PML-N Chief Mian Nawaz Sharif, as he did not need foreign assistance and support to carry his politics in the country", he vowed.
Escalating electricity rates will desperately affect industrial ... by The Frontier Star (Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan)
ISLAMABAD, September 25, 2009 (Balochistan Times): Organizations affiliated with Jamaat -Ahle-Sunnat took out protest demonstration on Friday against the decision of NWFP government celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr one day earlier and against the character assassination of Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman, chief of Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee.
Protest demonstration against character assassination of Mufti Muneeb by Balochistan Times (Baluchistan Province, Pakistan)
 
 
 
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