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Discover LudwigThe phrase "assailed her" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone is attacked or criticized strongly, either physically or verbally.
Example: "The critics assailed her for her controversial opinions during the debate."
Alternatives: "attacked her" or "assaulted her verbally".
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Conservative pundits assailed her character.
One assailed her writing style.
But some in the country have assailed her as a Western stooge.
Yet critics have assailed her response to the Rohingya crisis, with some demanding her Nobel Prize be revoked.
In the campaign, Ms. O'Brien fought against weeks of negative advertising that assailed her stewardship of the treasurer's office.
A social liberal, Ms. Berkley, 61, has assailed her opponent for embracing the Republican top of the ticket's proposed spending cuts and Medicare changes.
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(Her father, who was a member of the Cockettes, had just died of AIDS, and she remembered assailing her classmates for their casual disparagement of gay men).
Mrs. Clinton pointed to the fact that Republicans have been assailing her constantly as evidence that she was delivering a clear message.
After Winner's arrest was announced, her Facebook page was filled with thousands of comments, many of them assailing her, accusing her of treason and, in some cases, calling for her to be executed.
With suspicion assailing her and discovery threatened at all times she would have been at least a bit fearful and not a little anxious, thus creating a suspenseful interest in her predicament the picture does not now inspire.
The most memorable is a naked, graying fellow perched on the roof of a house, staring at Jay as she drives away, and the freakiest assails her in a swimming pool.
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