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" (21 found)
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3 entriesTranslations
7 translations across 7 languages.
Finnish
1 entries- loanheitto noun (casting aspersions to discredit)
German
1 entries- Schlammschlacht noun (casting aspersions to discredit)
Greek
1 entries- λασπολογία noun (casting aspersions to discredit)
Hungarian
1 entries- sárdobálás noun (casting aspersions to discredit)
Persian
1 entries- لجنپراکنی noun (casting aspersions to discredit)
Spanish
1 entries- injuriamiento noun (casting aspersions to discredit)
Swedish
1 entries- pajkastning noun (casting aspersions to discredit)
Sample 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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