mudslinging

Example Sentences

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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

This week’s mudslinging comes courtesy of the initial House documents—from the Epstein estate, or those the Justice Department didn’t mind parting with.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

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

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2024

Is there any clarity to come out of this mudslinging?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 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