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character-assassination

character-assassination is the alternative form of character assassination.

Meaning of character assassination

Noun

character assassination (countable and uncountable, plural character assassinations)

  1. (idiomatic) A malicious discourse designed to damage the reputation of someone.
    • 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...2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian

Forms of character-assassination

pluralcharacter-assassinations

Questions about character-assassination

What is character-assassination the alternative form of?
Character-assassination is the alternative form of character assassination.

Words near character-assassination in the dictionary

  1. character witnesses
  2. character-assassinate
  3. character-assassinated
  4. character-assassinates
  5. character-assassinating
  6. character-assassination
  7. character-assassinations
  8. character-based
  9. character-building
  10. character-forming
  11. charactered

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