mudslinging
Noun
Meaning
mudslinging (usually uncountable, plural mudslingings)
Casting aspersions with intent to discredit.
The campaign degenerated into mutual mudslinging, each candidate trying to tarnish the other's reputation and looking bad in the process.
The mudslinging didn't help expand the media coverage of the issues; all that was reported was the mudslingings.
Synonyms
Examples
It just leads to a mudslinging contest, and if a recruiter or hiring manager sees that, they’re going to question your judgment.”
Inevitably those attending have had tough experiences, but he reiterates that the meetings are not about mudslinging.
Even the Kaduna elections were nearly aborted and we barely managed to survive that elections with all the budding thuggery, mudslinging, low scale bribery, etc. that took place.
It used its members' money on mudslinging campaigns on behalf of Halonen.
Confusion, diatribes, mudslinging, image smearing and animosity characterised the first consultative talks as the search for the successor of the late Paramount ruler of the Bakweris, Nakuve Chief Justice Samuel Moka Lifafa Endeley, heightens.
It's very sad that we have a potential political leader who has such a slim resume that she has to invent one and relies on a nasty, inaccurate mudslinging campaign rather than running on real achievements.