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.
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61. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand is seen as the starting point of the war.
62. Those who go in for character assassination create human conflicts and can easily end up as victims.
63. Today, ironically, McGuinness himself rarely leaves the Bogside, where he was born, for fear of assassination.
64. The board is responsible for releasing documents on the 1963 Kennedy assassination that do not endanger national security.
65. His assassination was predictable, although how the murderer passed by the android security guards had yet to be explained.
66. By August 1963 - three months before the President's assassination - 200,000 had marched on Washington.
67. Labor Party leaders have denounced the talk as an attempt by the right to escape indirect blame for the assassination.
68. Members of the party are seeking revenge for the assassination of their leader.
69. In December 1989 he had survived a car-bomb assassination attempt in Cairo.
70. The news of the President's assassination had only just begun to sink in.
71. Malcolm modified his views toward integration shortly before his assassination on February 21[sentencedict.com/assassination.html], l965.
72. Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. Adolf Hitler
73. Peres became prime minister after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin last November.
74. Oliver Stone, operating under a hail of criticism, was finishing a revisionist movie about the Kennedy assassination.
75. The government met in emergency session on May 22 and agreed to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the assassination.
76. It was the scene of a failed assassination attempt on the royal couple at a charity concert nine years ago.
77. In the assassination, Netanyahu was a supporting actor with an ambiguous role.
78. Bernadette Devlin had a close call, but she survived the assassination attempt against her.
79. The New York jury deliberated for four days before acquitting Noseir of Kahane's assassination.
80. The White Lions protected him from many assassination attempts and his personal retinue of Sapherian wizards countered all death-spells.
81. The assassination attempt has definitely spoilt the previously positive atmosphere between the opposing parties.
82. At the funeral of one of his bodyguards after an assassination attempt Pinochet was crying.
83. Democrats are not innocent in the game of character assassination.
84. Soon after taking office Reagan won much popular sympathy when he was shot and wounded in an assassination attempt.
85. The peacemakers are marked by fanatics on both sides for protests, resistance and even assassination.
86. By sheer luck I had given Reuters their biggest news scoop since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
87. Friday, 29 years after he was slain by a single rifle shot, his assassination is once again a hot topic.
88. Ray pleaded guilty to the assassination in 1969 and is serving a 99-year sentence.
89. Within five years, surviving numerous assassination attempts, he managed to convert thousands of Calvinists back to Catholicism.
90. All too often politicians discredit themselves by engaging in character assassination.
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.