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ad hominem
noun as in character assassination
Example Sentences
But it has become increasingly ad hominem, with particular focus on his alleged anti-Semitism.
When it comes to ad hominem attacks, neither Woffinden nor Rose can rest on safe ground.
This was hardly an ad hominem assault, though West interpreted it that way.
It was a masterful bit of hypocritical eloquence, of argumentum ad hominem; but it was made to simple and illiterate hearers.
And thus, when in future they are condemned, they will say ad hominem that they are unjust, and thus will refute their judgment.
It was not to this, however, that he directed his objection: the argumentum ad hominem came more easily to him.
But it was the Argumentum ad hominem; and if my uncle Toby was not very expert at it, you may think, he might not care to use it.
In a case like this the argumentum ad hominem, though a perfectly fair one, is a perfectly useless one.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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