smear campaign

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smear campaign

noun smear campaigns

  1. idiomatic An effort to damage or call into question someone's reputation, by propounding negative propaganda. His opponent said it was all a smear campaign to make him look bad in the eyes of the voters.

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@misc{smear_campaign_2026,
  title = {smear campaign},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/smear%20campaign},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}