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mudslinger
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mudslinger has 1 sense
- mudslinger(n = noun.person) muckraker - one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage); Array is a kind of depreciator, detractor, disparager, knocker
THESAURUS
mudslinger
Thersites, backbiter, belittler, calumniator, caustic critic, cynic, debunker, decrier, defamer, deflater, depreciator, derogator, detractor, disparager, hatchet man, knocker, libeler, muckraker, railer, slanderer, social critic, traducer
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