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noun
- 1. the malicious and unjustified harming of a person's good reputation: "all too often they discredit themselves by engaging in character assassination"
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Deliberate and sustained process that destroys the credibility and reputation of a person, institution, organization, social group, or nation
Character assassination (CA) is a deliberate and sustained effort to damage the reputation or credibility of an individual. The phrase "character assassination" became popular around 1930. This concept, as a subject of scholarly study, was originally introduced by Davis (1950) in a collection of essays revealing the dangers of political smear campaigns. Six decades later Icks and Shiraev (2014) re... Wikipedia