English-Spanish translations for smear campaign

• campaña de desprestigio
  Ante todo, me gustaría recalcar que no es una cuestión de una campaña de desprestigio personal, sino de efectuar una limpieza a fondo. First and foremost, I should like to emphasise that this is not a smear campaign directed against individuals, but a question of putting matters in order.

Definition of smear campaign

• An effort to damage or call into question someone's reputation, by propounding negative propaganda

Examples

• His opponent said it was all a smear campaign to make him look bad in the eyes of the voters.

Related words

• smear
• smearing
• smeared
• besmear
• unsmeared
• smearwort
• smearer
• smear test
• smear ripened