Meaning of character assassination | Babel Free

Definitions

A malicious discourse designed to damage the reputation of someone.

countable, idiomatic, uncountable

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Examples

“For months, Dati warned she would refuse to stand aside. Now she has stunned the political class with an open letter to Fillon in Le Monde, a scathing character assassination accusing him of the "lone ambition" of a disillusioned political elite, of doing politics in a way that "never favoured women" and stopping ethnic-minority candidates from progressing at elections. She said he was committing "a sad mistake" in trying to run in Paris.”

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