smear campaign

English

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Noun

smear campaign (plural smear campaigns)

1. (idiomatic) 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.

Translations

negative propaganda

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 惡意營銷／恶意营销 (èyì yíngxiāo)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: smædekampagne c
• Dutch: lastercampagne (nl) m or f
• Finnish: mustamaalaus (fi), loanheitto, lokakampanja (fi)
• French: campagne de diffamation f
• Georgian: ბინძური კამპანია (binʒuri ḳamṗania)
• German: Hetzkampagne f, Schmutzkampagne (de) f
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: lejárató kampány, lejáratókampány, rágalomhadjárat (hu), sárdobálás (hu), hecckampány (hu)
• Italian: campagna diffamatoria f
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: kampania oszczerstw f
• Portuguese: campanha difamatória f
• Russian: клеветни́ческая кампа́ния f (klevetníčeskaja kampánija)
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: campaña de desprestigio f
• Swedish: smutskastningskampanj c, nedsvärtningskampanj c, smutskampanj c
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• rumor campaign
• whisper campaign
• character assassination
• swiftboating
• mudslinging