character-assassination

plural character-assassinations

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of character assassination.

   The claim by David Weiner that Bogert operated a “series of schemes” is unsupported character-assassination.

   2020 July 13, Norm King, “Palm Springs, don’t buck Mayor Bogert off his horse”, in The Desert Sun, volume 93, number 271, Palm Springs, Calif., →OCLC, page 7A, column 3

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   It remained for the house committee on expenditures in the interior department to show to what depths of infamy partisan hate can go in these days of scandal-monging,^([sic]) reputation-destroying and character-assassination.

   1876 April 27, “Democratic Investigation Run Mad”, in The Morning Republican, Scranton, Pa.: J[oseph] A[ugustine] Scranton, →OCLC, page [2], column 1

   I will not allow my reputation to be sullied by either poor training or rogue management. And I won’t have my health or self-esteem be compromised by even one more incident of retail profiling, public humiliation and character-assassination.

   2018 December 7, Shoshana Litvack, “This can’t be the price of security”, in Peace Arch News, volume 43, number 97, White Rock, B.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A7, column 3