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smear campaign

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Main Entry: smear campaign
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: attempt to defame another

Synonyms:

character assassination, defamation, defamation of character, dirty politics, dirty pool, dragging one's name through the mud, injury of reputation, malicious defamation, mudslinging, negative campaign, negative campaigning, personal attack, slander, whispering campaign
Main Entry: detraction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: misrepresentation; slander

Synonyms:

abuse, aspersion, backbiting, backstabbing, belittlement, calumny, damage, defamation, denigration, deprecation, derogation, disesteem, disparagement, harm, hit, hurt, injury, injustice, innuendo, insinuation, knock*, libel, libeling, lie, maligning, minimization, muckraking, obloquy, pejorative, revilement, ridicule, running down, scandal, scandalmongering, scurrility, slam, smear campaign, tale, traducement, traducing, vilification, vituperation, wrong

Antonyms:

admiration, adulation, flattery, praise
Main Entry: character assassination
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: attack someone's reputation

Synonyms:

ad hominem, blackening, dirty politics, dirty pool, dirty tricks, hatchet job, muckraking, mudslinging, name-calling, personal attack, slanderous attack, smear, smear campaign
Main Entry: whispering campaign
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: negative campaign

Synonyms:

character assassination, innuendo, insinuation, slander, sly suggestion, smear campaign
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Detraction.
Category: 2. Moral sentiments

Synonyms:

-nouns
detraction, disparagement, depreciation, vilification, obloquy, scurrility, scandal, defamation, aspersion, traducement, slander, calumny, obtrectation, evil-speaking, backbiting, scandalum magnatum., personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade; chronique scandaleuse; roor-back [U.S.]., sarcasm, cynicism; criticism (disapprobation); invective; envenomed tongue; spretae injuria formae., detractor.
-verbs
detract, derogate, decry, depreciate, disparage; run down, cry down; backcap [U.S.]; belittle; sneer at (contemn); criticize, pull to pieces, pick a hole in one's coat, asperse, cast aspersions, blow upon, bespatter, blacken, vilify, vilipend; avile; give a dog a bad name, brand, malign; muckrake; backbite, libel, lampoon, traduce, slander, defame, calumniate, bear false witness against; speak ill of behind one's back., fling dirt (disrespect); anathematize; dip the pen in gall, view in a bad light.
-adjectives
detracting; defamatory, detractory, derogatory; disparaging, libelous; scurrile, scurrilous; abusive; foul-spoken, foul-tongued, foul-mouthed; slanderous; calumnious, calumniatory; sarcastic, sardonic; satirical, cynical.
-phrases
"damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer; and without sneering, teach the rest to sneer" [Pope]; another lie nailed to the counter; "cut men's throats with whisperings" [B. Jonson]; "foul whisperings are abroad" [Macbeth]; "soft-buzzing slander" [Thomson]; "virtue itself
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