Mudslinging
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mudslinging is a noun meaning Casting aspersions with intent to discredit.
Meaning
Casting aspersions with intent to discredit.
Example Sentences
The mudslinging didn't help expand the media coverage of the issues; all that was reported was the mudslingings.
The defections have set off furious mudslinging, as each side has cranked up its spin machine to portray its version of the story.
The campaign degenerated into mutual mudslinging, each candidate trying to tarnish the other's reputation and looking bad in the process.
Some persons are sincerely incapable of understanding that to denounce mud slinging does not mean the endorsement of whitewashing; and both the interested individuals who need whitewashing and those others who practice mud slinging like to encourage such confusion of ideas.
Word Forms
- mudslingings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include vilification, aspersion, sliming, slandering, smearer, backbiting.
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