CHARACTER ASSASSINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does character assassination mean? 

• CHARACTER ASSASSINATION (noun)
  The noun CHARACTER ASSASSINATION has 1 sense:

1. an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation

  Familiarity information: CHARACTER ASSASSINATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHARACTER ASSASSINATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An attack intended to ruin someone's reputation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

assassination; blackwash; character assassination

Hypernyms ("character assassination" is a kind of...):

calumniation; calumny; defamation; hatchet job; obloquy; traducement (a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions)