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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91. At first, Carrington had listened with unease as Morton had blandly slid around his assassination claims.
92. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo led to the First World War.
93. But does this justify the character assassination in which Grassley et al have engaged?
94. The unit had claimed responsibility for the assassination of over 300 troops, policemen and government officials since 1984.
95. This new book perpetuates all the old myths about the Kennedy assassination.
96. Some of the recently released assassination records substantiate other evidence that Garrison was a fraud.
97. Henriette Nizan recalled in 1980 the events surrounding the assassination of Kirov in Moscow in December 1934.
98. Riots and demonstrations broke out all over the country after the assassination of Martin Luther King.
99. Aerospace firms saw their value rise three-quarters of a percent more than the market right after the assassination.
100. Torture of political detainees became widespread and systematic after the assassination of President Sadat in October 1981. Sentencedict.com
101. Congress might still garner sympathy votes. Before the assassination, opinion polls gave the party 225 to 310 seats out of 537.
102. So far, no material evidence has linked Pyongyang to the assassination attempt.
103. They have turned character assassination into a state-of-the-art enterprise to get big ratings.
104. He was badly wounded in an assassination attempt in 1996.
105. Then criticisms of him began to be heard and there were unconfirmed reports of assassination attempts.
106. There is 544 Camp Street in New Orleans, the most notorious address in the chronicles of the assassination.
107. With the suicide of Tatyana Nowak and a successful assassination of her son, the confession would vanish from memory.
108. The statement claimed that the bombing was in revenge for the assassination of Musawi.
109. Until her assassination she had led a quiet and relatively obscure life.
110. Mihailovic wrote an obituary for a Belgrade newspaper following Arkan's assassination.
111. Inquiry into Boudiaf's assassination On July 25 the commission of inquiry into Boudiaf's assassination published preliminary results.
112. He addressed a crowd of his civilian supporters at Baabda on Oct. 12, when he only narrowly escaped an assassination attempt.
113. The assassination attempt on his life had been thwarted and his master plan on the Continent was going exactly to plan.
114. The spark to start off the purges was the assassination of Sergei Kirov, head of the Leningrad organisation.
115. In the distance smoke rose over the old city, where Hindu mobs were massacring Sikhs in reprisal for Indira's assassination.
116. It was clear he had had nothing to do with the assassination attempt.
117. It concerned the assassination of foreign leaders from a philosophical point of view.
118. We felt before the Rabin assassination that we were winning.
119. This was Antonio Lozano Gracias, whose appointment as attorney general Zedillo hoped would give the assassination investigations credibility.
120. A fundamentalist group was charged with the assassination of President Sadat in 1981 and the atmosphere persisted throughout the 1980s.
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.