smear word


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Noun1.smear word - an epithet that can be used to smear someone's reputation; "he used the smear word `communist' for everyone who disagreed with him"
epithet, name - a defamatory or abusive word or phrase
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LABOUR and the Tories use the smear word "Separatist" to attack the SNP and scare off timid voters.
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There is also insufficient distinction here between the use of savage as a political smear word and the insertion of the Kanak into previously formulated theories of social development (such as the four stages model of development from hunting to commercial societies).
Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790-1900
Jan Gould analyzes the use of "imagination" as the "smear word of choice" in France for disparaging "unenlightened attitudes and behavior" (30).
Enthusiasm and Enlightenment in Europe, 1650-1850

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