How to Use character assassination in a Sentence

character assassination

noun
  • None of those rumors are true. She's been the victim of character assassination.
  • Roberts brings a jolt of invigorating fury to one of the movie’s strongest scenes, in which the mentor rips into her mentee in public on a campus square with a fully detailed character assassination.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Are those legit reasons for character assassination?
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Cries of character assassination that the super smart Donnie would have to ask an AI algorithm for advice could be found all over Twitter.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Liuzzo and Good suffered significant character assassination that their male partners-in-protest avoided.
    — Aniko Bodroghkozy, The Conversation, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Fending off a character assassination?
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Putting an exclamation point on that thought with a scene of Carol yelling at a group of joggers to get out of the way while listening to a self-motivation audiobook makes her character assassination feel heavy-handed this early on in the seven-episode run.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Political bullies also enjoy demeaning names and character assassination.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Mar. 2026
  • This narrative that has been created, that image that anyone who speaks against a revolution is thrown into jail, that’s a big lie, that’s a slander, and that’s part of that construct, in order to vilify and to engage a character assassination of the Cuban Revolution.
    — NBC news, 12 Apr. 2026

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