How to Use character assassination in a Sentence

character assassination

noun

• None of those rumors are true. She's been the victim of character assassination.
• This was a character assassination that, sure, raised the stakes, but at what cost?
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 30 May 2018
• The attack, the smear, the character assassination against Judge Robert Bork, one of the smartest lawyers ever, one of the greatest professors ever.
  — Fox News, 24 Sep. 2018
• And the type of character assassination that Dezenhall has been charting for years in the Washington P.R. business gave him the perfect plot to do that.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 26 Feb. 2021
• That’s not to say real couples don’t go through tumult, but the character assassination of Jim Halpert in the pursuit of high-stakes drama caused a beloved show to end on a sour note.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 20 May 2018
• The notion that calling someone’s words or actions racist is character assassination was on full display on the House floor this week.
  — Ben Zimmer, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019
• The battle against the pipeline, waged in the name of wildlife, indigenous peoples and the planet, feels to Albertans like character assassination.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• The Democrats are engaged in a campaign of delay and character assassination against Judge Kavanaugh.
  — Lisa Mascaro, The Seattle Times, 24 Sep. 2018
• By all accounts, the character assassination of the real-life Richard Jewell was achingly plain and unjust.
  — Katie Hasty, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2019
• But how many of those barbs were simply attempts at character assassination isn’t clear.
  — NBC News, 18 Oct. 2021
• In most of these cases, the punishment is expulsion from the ivory tower and a large dose of character assassination that will follow the fellow throughout his life.
  — Christine Flowers, Alaska Dispatch News, 14 Aug. 2017
• Woodring didn’t elaborate on his claims about the women, which their lawyer called an unfair character assassination.
  — Philly.com, 2 May 2018
• Yeah, the character assassination attacks have reached a new level this year, but the articles are all nothing-burgers.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 25 July 2022
• The defense also argued the state’s case amounted to character assassination and raised the possibility there might have been two killers.
  — Valerie Bauerlein, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2023
• This character assassination was so vicious and so horrible, so nasty, Justice Thomas called it a high-tech lynching.
  — Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
• This first episode will be part of a three-part webinar series on character assassination and the US Presidency, leading up to a discussion of the 2020 election.
  — Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner, 19 Aug. 2020
• The game write-ups often don’t rate a headline on the first sports page, and Dylan Hernández is more focused on character assassination of Anthony Rendon than the actual games.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023
• All Alayah can do is silently listen to her own character assassination.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 5 Feb. 2020
• If your teen comes to you beforehand worried about how to approach the breakup, Solomon advises parents to do a role-play or brainstorm a script that avoids finger-pointing and character assassination.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2021
• The Democrats’ big idea now is character assassination and conformity.
  — WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
• Bork became the target of a vicious campaign of character assassination in which Senator Ted Kennedy was a prime rabble-rouser.
  — Mario Loyola, National Review, 22 Sep. 2020
• Censorship, character assassination, and calls for literal book-burning are the Left’s tools of choice when faced with opposing views.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 3 Dec. 2020
• From here, the film progresses with your typical sci-fi/horror fare with jump scares and secondary character assassinations aplenty.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 25 Feb. 2018
• The Floyd family and its attorneys decry as character assassination the defense efforts to portray him as a drug user.
  — Chao Xiong, Star Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
• Democrats voted in lockstep against both men and continue their character assassinations of Trump nominees, egged on by outside groups.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2018
• Eric Dezenhall is so troubled with media character assassination that he’s written a novel about it, his 11th book.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 26 Feb. 2021
• Now, the most often used character assassination in the Democratic playbook is to call Republicans racist.
  — Fox News, 24 Sep. 2018
• On the other hand, Kat’s attempt to break up with Ethan by faking a terminal brain illness and then gaslighting him is a move so foolish that Levinson faces accusations of character assassination.
  — Iana Murray, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2022
• Or the borker—the man who helped redefine how low political character assassination could go?
  — Libby Sternberg, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
• Keystone Managing Director Anthony Giorgio said early in his remarks that over the course of this debate, there has been a tremendous amount of character assassination, and that there was no need to engage in it further.
  — Shannon Larson, courant.com, 24 July 2019

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