smear campaign
Example Sentences
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Wallace, the son of Biggie Smalls and singer Faith Evans, sued Hay for defamation in a Florida federal court last week, calling Hay’s recent interviews “a calculated smear campaign” that included false statements that he attended Combs’ so-called freak-off parties and “conspired to lure Hay to a location where Combs purportedly assaulted him.”
From Los Angeles Times
The 71-year-old Slovak-born politician has denied any wrongdoing, calling the allegations a smear campaign.
From Barron's
Lawyers for the reservists argued in the news conference that their clients were the victims of a smear campaign orchestrated by Tomer-Yerushalmi.
Blake Lively is seeking more than $161 million in damages from an alleged smear campaign involving “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni, including lost acting jobs and financial blows to her alcohol and hair-care brands.
In June, Judge Liman explained that Baldoni's lawsuit centred on two claims: that Lively "stole the film" from him and his production company Wayfarer by threatening not to promote it, and that she and others promoted a false narrative that Baldoni sexually assaulted her and launched a smear campaign against her.
From BBC
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