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Definition of Character assassination
1. Noun. An attack intended to ruin someone's reputation.
Generic synonyms: Calumniation, Calumny, Defamation, Hatchet Job, Obloquy, Traducement
Derivative terms: Assassinate
Definition of Character assassination
1. Noun. (idiomatic) a malicious verbal assault designed to damage the reputation of a public figure ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Character Assassination
Literary usage of Character assassination
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1888)
"... most cowardly, most heinous, blackest of crimes, the crime of
character-assassination. By as much as character is dearer to every noble man
than life, ..."
2. Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture, 1790-1990 by Nian-Sheng Huang (1994)
"During these hearings, Thomas described Hill's charge of alleged sexual harassment
as "character assassination," Hill's former classmates at Yale University ..."
3. Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture, 1790-1990 by Nian-Sheng Huang (1994)
"During these hearings, Thomas described Hill's charge of alleged sexual harassment
as "character assassination." Hill's former classmates at Yale University ..."
4. Wisconsin Journal of Education by Wisconsin Education Association Council, Wisconsin Education Association, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction (1888)
"Misconstruction of thought and action, and character assassination, come from
lack of ethical culture. The assassin of character is too often unpunished. ..."
5. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1893)
"... apt to predominate over the literary character. assassination of the Regent
Murray, was employed to draw up a pretended conference between him, Knox, ..."
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