Deliberate and sustained process that destroys the credibility and reputation of a person, institution, organization, social group, or nation.
An attack intended to ruin someone's reputation.
1But the regime's most common weapon against its critics is character assassination.
2Your Honor, I promise you, I am not engaging in idle character assassination.
3Meeting no resistance, the character assassination had the expected result.
4He started the day by claiming he was the subject of a character assassination.
5He rejected the charges, calling them "a flimsy attempt at character assassination".
6The last-minute character assassination will not succeed. Mr Trump is standing by Mr Kavanaugh.
7Heaven knows how much conniving, blackmail, and downright character assassination went on behind the scenes.
8And had a plan in 1990 to begin a process of character assassination of Zuma.
9He took his tale of character assassination against him all the way back to 1990.
10GHOSN'S HOUSES This is part of the character assassination, and the media jumped on it.
11It said such questions can sometimes lead to " character assassination".
12The lines themselves were enough: not so much a stinging rebuke but a wholesale character assassination.
13Nasreen's campaign of harassment and character assassination amounts to a kind of frictionless sharing of malice.
14That's what makes The Block'spivot from renovation show to contestant character assassination feel so deeply uncomfortable.
15McClaren is still cautious of a character assassination.
16Nejrabi denied all allegations made in the report, calling the findings "a political character assassination".
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