The campaign degenerated into mutual mudslinging, each candidate trying to tarnish the other's reputation and looking bad in the process.
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Mudslinging
Synonyms for "mudslinging" (45 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Noun(6 words)
Strong matches (14)
Noun(8 words)
Related words (22)
malicious defamationmuckrakingmudslinging campaignname-callingpolitical canardrevilementroorbacksmearsmear campaignsmear wordvilificationwhispering campaign
Noun(10 words)
negative framingpersonal insinuationscurrilousslanderslanderoussmearsmear tacticvilificationvilifyvilifying
Related word relations
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More general
13 entriescampaign strategycommunication actcommunication patterndefamatory behaviordiscourse phenomenoninsultnegative rhetoricpejorative languagepolitical rhetoricpolitical tacticrhetorical patternstrategic communicationverbal attack
More specific
17 entriesad hominem argumentattack adattack rhetoriccalumnycharacter assassinationdefamatory accusationdefamatory campaigninsulting rhetoriclibelous accusationnegative campaigningnegative framingpersonal attackpersonal insinuationpersonal-attack rhetoricsmear campaignsmear rhetoric
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Collocations
14 entriesattack adcharacter assassinationdefamatory accusationmudslinging campaignmudslinging languagemudslinging politicsmudslinging rhetoricmudslinging tacticmudslinging tacticspersonal attackpersonal mudslingingpolitical mudslingingsmear campaignverbal attack
Inflections
4 entriesDerivations
4 entriesSample sentences
4 total sentences available.
The mudslinging didn't help expand the media coverage of the issues; all that was reported was the mudslingings.
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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.
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The defections have set off furious mudslinging, as each side has cranked up its spin machine to portray its version of the story.
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