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whispering campaign
noun
- the organized spreading of insinuations or rumors to destroy the reputation of a person, organization, etc.
whispering campaign
noun
- the organized diffusion by word of mouth of defamatory rumours designed to discredit a person, group, etc
Word History and Origins
Origin of whispering campaign1
Idioms and Phrases
A deliberate spreading of derogatory rumors about a candidate, as in That whispering campaign destroyed his chances for election . [c. 1920]Example Sentences
Though he was careful not to appear in public in his wheelchair, there was a whispering campaign that Roosevelt was not physically fit for the presidency.
Mr Brentnall said in the years that followed his conviction, there was a "whispering campaign" in the community with people calling him a "thief" and a "fraudster".
“They’re like an unwritten whispering campaign that has taken on the force of law,” he said.
He said he did not believe Ms. Patel’s denials that she had orchestrated a whispering campaign against him with the news media.
Over the past few months, so-called "friends" of the prince have mounted a whispering campaign about the photo trying to undercut its authenticity.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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