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Meaning of character assassination | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A malicious discourse designed to damage the reputation of someone.

countable, idiomatic, uncountable

Equivalents

العربية اِغْتِيَال شَخْصِيَّة
Deutsch Diffamierung Rufmord
Español difamación
Suomi mustamaalaus
Français diffamation médisance
Íslenska mannorðsmorð
Nederlands karaktermoord
Polski oczernianie
Svenska karaktärsmord

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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

character beat character cell character class character density character disorder character encoding

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