Synonym: blackwash, character assassination. Similar words: classification, passionate, association, nomination, rumination, combination, domination, inclination. Meaning: [ə‚sæsɪ'neɪʃn] 
n. 1. an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation 2. murder of a public figure by surprise attack.
n. 1. an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation 2. murder of a public figure by surprise attack. 
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31. The campaign was accused of character assassination because of its negative ads.
32. The assassination of the ambassador precipitated the country into war.
33. It does not show the motorcade during the assassination.
34. What he had just heard was character assassination.
35. Patricio Martnez survived the assassination attempt.
36. He survived an assassination attempt in March.
37. Reagan was wounded in an assassination attempt in 1981.
38. And she never was an assassination gal.
39. The assassination policy began in November.
40. There was tension-Gligorov survived an assassination attempt-but no fighting.Sentencedict.com
41. Like the Shah, Hassan had survived several assassination attempts.
42. This coven deals in secret assassination.
43. In 1968, the Oscar ceremony was postponed for two days, following the assassination of Martin Luther King.
44. There are numerous recent cases of character assassination and reputation assault that would discourage any sane person from accepting high government appointment.
45. There was shouting, the kind of confused commotion that usually attends an assassination attempt.
46. It seems in some of those countries that political torture and assassination are par for the course.
47. All the Kashmiri guerrilla groups denied any involvement in the assassination, and many blamed the government security forces.
48. The assassination attempt at Rastenburg last year ... it caused him grave damage.
49. Sarah Bradford is right to spend two-thirds of her quiet, lucid biography on the years before the assassination.
50. Zapruder sold the film to Time-Life Inc. shortly after the 1963 assassination for $ 150, 000.
51. Conflicting official versions of the circumstances of the assassination fed doubts as to where ultimate responsibility lay.
52. Daley, as it turned out, seemed to be the only person who knew about an assassination plot.
53. The sect did use assassination as a highly effective weapon, however, against other Persian groups.
54. The law provides the board can take possession of any assassination document.
55. The press, too, was irresponsible and factional, given to vitriolic personal attacks and political character assassination.
56. But if character assassination were a crime, there'd be a long list of suspects.
57. He was, however, to be extremely active in his capacity as an executor after Buckingham's assassination.
58. Pretoria refuses demands for judicial inquiry into assassination squads De Klerk reformist image suffers as cover-up feared.
59. So were my years of flying in and out of countries where political torture and assassination were par for the course.
60. His good fortune in surviving subsequent assassination attempts increased his belief in his divine protection.
More similar words: classification, passionate, association, nomination, rumination, combination, domination, inclination, elimination, pollination, culmination, destination, imagination, examination, abomination, desalination, denomination, extermination, contamination, recrimination, discrimination, insubordination, predestination, canvassing, outgassing, procrastination, self-incrimination, passion, cessation, sassy.