smear campaign

The party considered this to be part of a smear campaign.

He said she was the victim of a smear campaign.

I'm quite sure that our love as a family can survive a press smear campaign.

They say he is a victim of a Soviet smear campaign.

"It is beginning to look like the same old smear campaign he tried to pull during the election."

Was it a smear campaign designed to defend the trade?

He also referred to the release of the police report as a smear campaign against him.

What we have here is not a defense, it's a smear campaign."

We have the right to know who is behind this obvious effort to conduct a smear campaign.

Why, then, are some veterans willing to join the smear campaign?

It would be the beginning of a smear campaign.

The smear campaign appeared to focus on his in-laws, he said.

If anyone wants to carry on a smear campaign against nuclear waste, they are welcome to do so.

I think I was the subject of a smear campaign.

In past centuries, candidates had to come up with their own smear campaigns.

The book has been "dismissed by Brotherhood leaders as part of a smear campaign."

His defenders claimed he was subjected to a smear campaign.

Smear campaigns against critics will start soon, if they haven't already.

In turn, backers are accusing the board and the teachers' union of using a smear campaign.

"You think the Conservatives will embark on a smear campaign using this?"

The term is most often used with the pejorative meaning of a smear campaign.

And this one has more of the appearance of a smear campaign.

State election officials, sensing a possible smear campaign, are snooping around, too.

The press carried out a smear campaign against the market women, claiming they were armed terrorists.

Republicans contended that the judge was the subject of a smear campaign by liberal groups.