SMEARCAMPAIGN

Smear campaign

A smear campaign, smear tactic or simply smear is a political tactic that is an unfair or untrue political attack. It employs the logical technique of conflation in which separate concepts, identities, or reputations of individual or groups are combined into one word or concept, losing individual meanings and differences as in swiftboating. Sometimes the use of the term "smear campaign" is used more generally to include any organized reputation-damaging activity by a group.

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smear campaign

Noun

  1. An effort to damage or call into question someone's reputation, by propounding negative propaganda.
    His opponent said it was all a smear campaign to make him look bad in the eyes of the voters.


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