How to Use character assassination in a Sentence

character assassination

noun

• None of those rumors are true. She's been the victim of character assassination.
• This was a character assassination that, sure, raised the stakes, but at what cost?
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 30 May 2018
• Daszak has come in for more than his share of character assassination.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
• But how many of those barbs were simply attempts at character assassination isn’t clear.
  — NBC News, 18 Oct. 2021
• All Alayah can do is silently listen to her own character assassination.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 5 Feb. 2020
• Woodring didn’t elaborate on his claims about the women, which their lawyer called an unfair character assassination.
  — Philly.com, 2 May 2018
• At the same time, politicians talked while the top brass stole, and all Ivan was left with was mindless paperwork — and now character assassination.
  — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
• The notion that calling someone’s words or actions racist is character assassination was on full display on the House floor this week.
  — Ben Zimmer, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019
• Yeah, the character assassination attacks have reached a new level this year, but the articles are all nothing-burgers.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 25 July 2022
• Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination.
  — Grace Gavilanes, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
• Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 23 June 2024
• Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination.
  — EW.com, 6 Aug. 2024
• The Democrats’ big idea now is character assassination and conformity.
  — WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
• Or the borker—the man who helped redefine how low political character assassination could go?
  — Libby Sternberg, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
• From here, the film progresses with your typical sci-fi/horror fare with jump scares and secondary character assassinations aplenty.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 25 Feb. 2018
• The defense also argued the state’s case amounted to character assassination and raised the possibility there might have been two killers.
  — Valerie Bauerlein, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2023
• In most of these cases, the punishment is expulsion from the ivory tower and a large dose of character assassination that will follow the fellow throughout his life.
  — Christine Flowers, Alaska Dispatch News, 14 Aug. 2017
• This character assassination was so vicious and so horrible, so nasty, Justice Thomas called it a high-tech lynching.
  — Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
• By all accounts, the character assassination of the real-life Richard Jewell was achingly plain and unjust.
  — Katie Hasty, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2019
• Censorship, character assassination, and calls for literal book-burning are the Left’s tools of choice when faced with opposing views.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 3 Dec. 2020
• That’s not to say real couples don’t go through tumult, but the character assassination of Jim Halpert in the pursuit of high-stakes drama caused a beloved show to end on a sour note.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 20 May 2018
• The Democrats are engaged in a campaign of delay and character assassination against Judge Kavanaugh.
  — Lisa Mascaro, The Seattle Times, 24 Sep. 2018
• The battle against the pipeline, waged in the name of wildlife, indigenous peoples and the planet, feels to Albertans like character assassination.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• When the president came after his lieutenant governor, Kemp let the character assassination fly.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 18 Nov. 2020
• The Floyd family and its attorneys decry as character assassination the defense efforts to portray him as a drug user.
  — Chao Xiong, Star Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
• As the moon clashes with Mercury, competition can lead to character assassinations!
  — USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2024
• Roberts brings a jolt of invigorating fury to one of the movie’s strongest scenes, in which the mentor rips into her mentee in public on a campus square with a fully detailed character assassination.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
• Are those legit reasons for character assassination?
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
• No one actually dies in Do Revenge, but countless acts of character assassination are committed by these savvy young women.
  — Time, 16 Sep. 2022
• The attack, the smear, the character assassination against Judge Robert Bork, one of the smartest lawyers ever, one of the greatest professors ever.
  — Fox News, 24 Sep. 2018