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Smear

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Smear meaning

To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing. | To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing. | To make something dirty.

Example sentences (20)

A cervical screening, known as a smear test, checks the health of the cervix and is a test to help prevent cancer, but in Joanne’s case, the results from her previous smear tests were negative prior to her diagnosis.

His running mate has endorsed the “anti-LGBT hate group” smear that the scandal-plagued smear factory the Southern Poverty Law Center levels at conservative Christian groups.

Adani's conglomerate shed more than US$100 billion in value earlier this year after a US short-seller investment firm made explosive allegations of accounting fraud, which the Indian company dismissed as an organised "smear campaign".

All of these agencies have had many problematic episodes in their pasts, but there is no evidence in this case that they willfully tried to smear Mr. Trump and his campaign with false allegations of collusion.

And it is of course wrong to smear a president as a veritable Hitlerian dictator.

As soon as Republican Mike Johnson was elected the new speaker of the House of Representatives, the Democrats’ flying monkeys in the mainstream media began scrambling for something to smear him with.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning accused unnamed parties of trying to smear or vilify China – even amid continued calls for China to provide full access to information from its Wuhan facility.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning accused unnamed parties of trying to smear or vilify China following the Department of Energy's report.

Did they drink white claw and smear poop on the walls?

Former CIA acting director Michael Morell recently credited Blinken with inspiring the notorious October 2020 letter, which President Biden used in a debate to falsely smear The Post’s reporting.

However, they fail to apprehend, or willfully neglect, the irreparable damage done by these smear and defamation campaigns.

In sharp contrast, his successor, Dan Rather, was forced to resign in disgrace for his lies in attempting to smear George W. Bush.

It also a smear on every law-enforcement officer in America.

It followed a smear campaign by Egyptian state media against her, after she accused Ahmed Shaaban, a senior intelligence officer, of blackmail.

Last month, Musk sued the CCDH, accusing it of a smear campaign that damaged the social network’s relationship with advertisers.

Members of the government also said the remark was a smear against all those sharing the Modi surname, which is associated with the lower rungs of India’s traditional caste hierarchy.

Of all Scobie's allegations, the use of race to smear the Royal Family is the most poisonously insidious, guaranteed to leave a whiff of stigma and impossible to prove when false.

On Tuesday, X/Twitter filed a lawsuit against Media Matters for America (MMfA), the media arm of political smear artist David Brock.

Other agencies seem to struggle to determine definitive links between the CCP and racially charged smear campaigns.

The current process ensures women are contacted via letter with reminders to book their smear tests when they are due.