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