mudslinging
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Damaging reputation
anti-defamation
aspersion
besmirch
black mark
blacken
blot
defamatory
defame
demonize
dog
drag someone's name through the mire/mudidiom
hatchet job
scurrilous
scurrilously
self-immolation
show someone in a bad lightidiom
slander
slur
smear
tarnish