mudslinging

Example Sentences

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“All this mudslinging and fighting that’s going on right now only helps out one person, and that’s Andy Beshear,” Quarles said.

From Seattle Times

"This places her in a position to rise above the level of political mudslinging that has occurred prior to and during the election period and really appeal as a leader responding to a crisis on a provincial scale," said Jim Billington, associate principal at polling firm Navigator Ltd.

From Reuters

But doing so — let alone kneeling before a monument, as Chancellor Brandt famously did in Warsaw — may be too much to ask from Mr. Kishida, given that his country’s right-wing nationalists are poised to “make him pay for anything they define as being weak on Korea in the mudslinging memory wars between the countries,” she said.

From New York Times

It was the official sound of the gun, the start of the race of mudslinging and mind games.

From Los Angeles Times

But the mudslinging backfired: In early October 1984, Mrs. Kopp won election to the council anyway, with Parliament voting 124 to 95 to select her over a male candidate, Bruno Hunziker.

From New York Times