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

"It's not been our finest 24 hours in government," one senior figure in government acknowledged to me, after mudslinging one way and another, some in public, plenty more in private.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2025

Media mudslinging abounded on various social media platforms.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 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