"mudslinging" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "mud + slinging",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "mudsling"
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        {
          "text": "The campaign degenerated into mutual mudslinging, each candidate trying to tarnish the other's reputation and looking bad in the process.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The mudslinging didn't help expand the media coverage of the issues; all that was reported was the mudslingings.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, Theodore Roosevelt, The Man with the Muck Rake",
          "text": "Some persons are sincerely incapable of understanding that to denounce mud slinging does not mean the endorsement of whitewashing; and both the interested individuals who need whitewashing and those others who practice mud slinging like to encourage such confusion of ideas.",
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        "Casting aspersions with intent to discredit."
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          "Casting aspersions",
          "cast aspersions"
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          "discredit",
          "discredit"
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "mud fight"
        },
        {
          "word": "throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick"
        }
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "casting aspersions to discredit",
          "word": "loanheitto"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "casting aspersions to discredit",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Schlammschlacht"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "laspología",
          "sense": "casting aspersions to discredit",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "λασπολογία"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "casting aspersions to discredit",
          "word": "sárdobálás"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "lajan-parâkani",
          "sense": "casting aspersions to discredit",
          "word": "لجنپراکنی"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "casting aspersions to discredit",
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          "word": "pajkastning"
        }
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  "word": "mudslinging"
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  "etymology_text": "mud + slinging",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
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      "word": "mud fight"
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          "text": "The campaign degenerated into mutual mudslinging, each candidate trying to tarnish the other's reputation and looking bad in the process.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "The mudslinging didn't help expand the media coverage of the issues; all that was reported was the mudslingings.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, Theodore Roosevelt, The Man with the Muck Rake",
          "text": "Some persons are sincerely incapable of understanding that to denounce mud slinging does not mean the endorsement of whitewashing; and both the interested individuals who need whitewashing and those others who practice mud slinging like to encourage such confusion of ideas.",
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "casting aspersions to discredit",
      "word": "loanheitto"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "casting aspersions to discredit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schlammschlacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "laspología",
      "sense": "casting aspersions to discredit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "λασπολογία"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "casting aspersions to discredit",
      "word": "sárdobálás"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "lajan-parâkani",
      "sense": "casting aspersions to discredit",
      "word": "لجنپراکنی"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "casting aspersions to discredit",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "pajkastning"
    }
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  "word": "mudslinging"
}