What is "smear campaigns"

Usage examples of "smear campaigns".

And no voter is less susceptible than a dead one to a politician's grandiose promises, smear campaigns or cheap scare tactics.

Charges of deliberately falsified smear campaigns had been the first refuge of the guilty for so long that resorting to them now would only have convinced a huge chunk of the public that the accusations must, in fact, be true.

But there was quite a lot of other news, mostly relating to TPrings undercover smear campaigns.

The former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, and his allies have, through parliamentary maneuvers, smear campaigns, collusion with local mullahs and some branches of the military, and attacks on other branches of the military, stalemated the reform program of the democratically elected prime minister, Benazir Bhutto.