Sentence examples for a character assassination from inspiring English sources

This is a character assassination.

It was something like a character assassination attempt".

"A character assassination was not part of the agreement".

Yet the blowback "left the realm of sports and became a character assassination," Joyce said.

"It's not about a character assassination of restaurants – they've all signed up," Coogan has explained.

Jefferies said he was the victim of a "character assassination" by elements of the media.

He engineers a character-assassination of Ford, and the title, knowingly, gets it precisely the wrong way around.

Vuillard is Stravinsky, he writes: a radical Neo-Classicist, slyly subversive ("an incredible character assassination," "ferocious," "shameless," Mr. Cogeval intuits about various portraits).

Recorder Maw worked at Lincoln County Court, where he ruled in favour of a teacher suing a former pupil for a libellous "character assassination" on website Friends Reunited in 2002.

In Tobias Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, a scathing character assassination runs, "He is ungracious as a hog, greedy as a vulture, and thievish as a jackdaw".

In his opening address, lawyer Kenny Oldwage, who with Roux forms part of Pistorius' defence team, sought to portray the state's allegations as an unwarranted character assassination of a young man deeply in love.