whispering campaign
the organized spreading of insinuations or rumors to destroy the reputation of a person, organization, etc.
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How to use whispering campaign in a sentence
It's true that Sotomayor has been the victim of a rather clumsy whispering campaign.
Removing Geithner (as the whispering campaign is already suggesting) won't in and of itself free up the credit markets.
The keen competition fought very shy of Mr. Peacock, thanks to the Bish and his whispering campaign.
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British Dictionary definitions for whispering campaign
the organized diffusion by word of mouth of defamatory rumours designed to discredit a person, group, etc
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Other Idioms and Phrases with whispering campaign
A deliberate spreading of derogatory rumors about a candidate, as in That whispering campaign destroyed his chances for election. [c. 1920]
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