Word: smear
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...Proud, defiant, nearly regal in her contempt when the trial opened almost seven weeks ago, the onetime actress turned its final hours into a dramatic shouting match. Presiding Judge Zeng Hanzhou interrupted her concluding remarks on the grounds that she was using her right to speak to "smear and vilify party and state leaders," which, he said, was a "counterrevolutionary" offense...
...pressed the attack on pocketbook issues, letting his less chivalrous allies address issues like abortion. But their efforts began to backfire--one pamphlet accused the father of five of being a baby killer, enough to convince many South Dakotans that their senior Senator truly was the victim of a smear campaign controlled from beyond their borders...
Asked in the fourth debate whether the tone of his campaign was negative, O'Neal said he had tried to be positive. "If I wanted to resort to innuendo and smear," he noted," I'd be bringing up a drunk driving charge and how a Wendy's franchise was transferred in the secretary of state's office." He was referring to traffic charges brought against Dixon in California in 1977 and Dixon's management of a hamburger franchise regulated by his office...
...convicts in the H-blocks have long protested a 1976 ruling that reduced the status of new inmates from something akin to prisoners of war to that of ordinary criminals. The "dirty protesters," as they have been called, refuse to wash, wear blankets instead of inmates' garb and smear prison walls with excrement...
...Sunday morning about 1940 when the Carter family was getting ready for church, Jimmy, then a high school senior, tried to smear down three-year-old Billy's unruly blond hair with brilliantine. When Billy squirmed, Jimmy threw him faceup across his lap and shook the bottle above his mouth. The top fell off and the hair oil poured over Billy's face...