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.
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Examples for "assassination "
Examples for "assassination "
1 The assassination of an elected official represents a challenge to any democracy.
2 Well since the Kennedy assassination all we've seen is corruption in government.
3 Dornan said he thought the assassination was the right thing to do.
4 Do nothing and perhaps witness the most unusual political assassination in history?
5 HRW said Hajjarian suffered permanent disability after an assassination attempt in 2000.
1 A lone green shirt engulfed by a marauding blackwash .
2 Like the tours of 1966 and 1983, the 2005 Lions have been rewarded for their efforts with a ' blackwash ' , losing every Test.
3 Many will fight against history being blackwashed in this way.
1 But the regime's most common weapon against its critics is character assassination .
2 Your Honor, I promise you, I am not engaging in idle character assassination .
3 Meeting no resistance, the character assassination had the expected result.
4 He started the day by claiming he was the subject of a character assassination .
5 He rejected the charges, calling them "a flimsy attempt at character assassination " .
6 The last-minute character assassination will not succeed. Mr Trump is standing by Mr Kavanaugh.
7 Heaven knows how much conniving, blackmail, and downright character assassination went on behind the scenes.
8 And had a plan in 1990 to begin a process of character assassination of Zuma.
9 He took his tale of character assassination against him all the way back to 1990.
10 GHOSN'S HOUSES This is part of the character assassination , and the media jumped on it.
11 It said such questions can sometimes lead to " character assassination " .
12 The lines themselves were enough: not so much a stinging rebuke but a wholesale character assassination .
13 Nasreen's campaign of harassment and character assassination amounts to a kind of frictionless sharing of malice.
14 That's what makes The Block'spivot from renovation show to contestant character assassination feel so deeply uncomfortable.
15 McClaren is still cautious of a character assassination .
16 Nejrabi denied all allegations made in the report, calling the findings "a political character assassination " .
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