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Noun: character assassination
  1. An attack intended to ruin someone's reputation
    "The political campaign devolved into character assassination rather than policy debates";
    - assassination, blackwash

Derived forms: character assassinations

Type of: calumniation, calumny, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement

Encyclopedia: Character assassination