mudslinging

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The judge’s order slims down the scope of the celebrities’ legal battle in a saga of public mudslinging that has gripped Hollywood since the hit film’s release almost two years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Downing Street, as ever, is at pains not to get involved in a public mudslinging contest with the White House.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

Rather than receiving support amid her troubles, however, Biles became the subject of a vitriolic campaign of media mudslinging.

From Salon • Jul. 19, 2024

Campaign mudslinging is a political tradition as old as politics itself.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2024

One piece of the mudslinging was the Coffin Handbill, a famous campaign poster published by Adams supporters that showed rows of coffins and listed Jackson’s “bloody deeds”—his duels, the deaths of militiamen under his command.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis