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Noun character assassination has 1 sense

• character assassination(n = noun.communication) assassination, blackwash - an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation; Array
is a kind of calumniation, calumny, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement

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character assassination

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

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