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smear campaign (Isayeva, however, left Dagestan in the summer after a smear campaign in which a supposed recording of her speaking in a sexually explicit phone call was spread vira[l]ly. BBC mascot); smear (A false accusation intended to damage someone's reputation: the popular press were indulging in unwarranted smears. More example sentences: Prime Minister Tony Blair and his colleagues took Gilligan's report as a serious smear on their reputations. Secondly, many if not most false negative smears can be detected on re-examination, but what does this mean from the legal point of view? Yesterday The Guardian printed a report by John Sutherland branding bloggers of unfairly smearing Rachel Corries' good name – the article then proceeded to indulge in some choice smears of its own. ODE. The smear was devastating for Isayeva, a conservative Muslim, and a sign of the immense pressure on Chernovik reporters. BBC Alexander Demidov) |
