All mudslinging synonyms
mud·sling·ing
M m noun mudslinging
- smear campaign — a campaign to tarnish the reputation of a public figure, especially by vilification or innuendo.
- backbiting — If you accuse someone of backbiting, you mean that they say unpleasant or unkind things about someone who is not present, especially in order to stop them doing well at work.
- denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- libel — the false accusation that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals: blood libels that spread throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
- character assassination — A character assassination is a deliberate attempt to destroy someone's reputation, especially by criticizing them in an unfair and dishonest way when they are not present.
- defamation — Defamation is the damaging of someone's good reputation by saying something bad and untrue about them.
- slander — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.