smear
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- n slanderous defamation
- n a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope
- n a blemish made by dirt
- n an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- v stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
- v make a smudge on; soil by smudging
- v cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
smear the wall with paint - v charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
- Unable to sell his out-of-touch ideas on the economy and Iraq, John McCain has stooped to the same smear politics and low road that he denounced in 2000.
- But this post by Bil Browning (self-described LGBT blogger and new media consultant) of the Huffington Post is just an out and out smear: Steele: GOP woos blacks with "fried chicken .
- And "he" is the victim of a smear campaign? Van Jones is the master black belt of smear campaigns.