Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun character_assassination

1 sense of character assassination

Sense 1
character assassination, assassination, blackwash -- (an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation)
       => defamation, calumny, calumniation, obloquy, traducement, hatchet job -- (a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions)