CHARACTER ASSASSINATION

злобная клевета, злостная клевета; подрыв репутации

character assassination: translation

attack, backbiting, backstabbing, belittlement, blackening, calumny, defamation, defamation of character, defilement, denigration, depreciation, dirt, dirty politics, disparagement, gossip column, juicy morsel, last-minute lie, malicious defamation, malicious gossip, muckraking, mudslinging, mudslinging campaign, name-calling, political canard, revilement, roorback, scandal, scandalmongering, slander, smear, smear campaign, smear word, tidbit, vilification, whispering campaign

character assassination: translation

Fig. seriously harming someone's reputation. •

The review was more than a negative appraisal of his performance. It was total character assassination.

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