How do you use Mudslinging in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Mudslinging in a sentence
Mudslinging meaning
Casting aspersions with intent to discredit.
Using Mudslinging
- The main meaning on this page is: Casting aspersions with intent to discredit.
- In the example corpus, mudslinging often appears in combinations such as: mudslinging and, the mudslinging, of mudslinging.
Context around Mudslinging
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mudslinging
- In this selection, "mudslinging" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, media, resultant, thuggery, towards, means and petty stand out and add context to how "mudslinging" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include allegations of mudslinging and dishonesty and and public mudslinging. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mudslinging" sits close to words such as aarons, abra and accelerations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mudslinging
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
We prefer not to go into any mudslinging or anything like that. (12 words)
He said: “This is supposed to be a dignified civic event and it turned into mudslinging. (16 words)
From the start, the rhetoric has been apocalyptic, the mudslinging petty and childish, and the provocations endless. (17 words)
The former CEO of the Charlotte Area Transit System says he didn’t want to get into the mudslinging over the system’s problems… but it was totally the fault of the procurement and HR departments for why he couldn’t manage the system properly. (45 words)
Vitriol is at a premium, and the resultant mudslinging means that the people who stick around and engage are likely to be the ones with the biggest fist for a fight, as well as an unsavoury appetite for critiquing the facial dynamics of celebrity infants. (45 words)
There were no fatalities in the French capital, but there was still a physical and mental price to pay for both the lack of organisation on the part of the authorities before the match and mudslinging towards supporters in the aftermath. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
One representative of the legal associations appealed for the mudslinging to stop, saying it was an embarrassment for this to be happening in front of the media and requested a meeting with Letsoalo “behind closed doors”.
The former CEO of the Charlotte Area Transit System says he didn’t want to get into the mudslinging over the system’s problems… but it was totally the fault of the procurement and HR departments for why he couldn’t manage the system properly.
There were no fatalities in the French capital, but there was still a physical and mental price to pay for both the lack of organisation on the part of the authorities before the match and mudslinging towards supporters in the aftermath.
Vitriol is at a premium, and the resultant mudslinging means that the people who stick around and engage are likely to be the ones with the biggest fist for a fight, as well as an unsavoury appetite for critiquing the facial dynamics of celebrity infants.
Civil lawsuits, criminal indictments, Democrat nominees, media mudslinging, and even a crazed gunman’s bullet bounced right off him.
From the start, the rhetoric has been apocalyptic, the mudslinging petty and childish, and the provocations endless.
He said: “This is supposed to be a dignified civic event and it turned into mudslinging.
In court last month Michael accused his son of 'wholesale character assassination' and 'mudslinging', of making him out to be 'a bad father, violent, threatening, devoid of emotional connection, a philanderer and everything else'.
Speaking at the ceremony, Governor Umo Eno congratulated the candidates on their emergence as flag-bearers and charged them to engage in issue-based campaigns, devoid of bitterness, violence, and mudslinging.
We prefer not to go into any mudslinging or anything like that.
Even the Kaduna elections were nearly aborted and we barely managed to survive that elections with all the budding thuggery, mudslinging, low scale bribery, etc. that took place.
I don’t care much for any of the political mudslinging that’s going on throughout this crisis.
Inevitably those attending have had tough experiences, but he reiterates that the meetings are not about mudslinging.
While I am not interested in engaging in any more media mudslinging between Martha and myself especially in light of a global pandemic, I will say that our fallout is multifaceted.
You don't have to a detective to know who is doing the mudslinging and stirring up communalism.
Apart from the exchange of brick-bats, mudslinging and violence that trailed the campaigns, it is worrisome that the election has also taken an ethnic coloration just like in time past.
Mouni, as per her spokesperson, “doesn’t believe in mudslinging” and “she wishes them the very best”.
Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer no one knew that their union would be marred by scandals and public mudslinging.
Though the candidates claim to carry positive messages, the campaign has been littered with allegations of mudslinging and dishonesty — largely by the Conservatives.
Ellenberg and Rocha have since been working together to find out who’s behind the anonymous mudslinging.
Common combinations with mudslinging
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: