noun
- a person who makes malicious or scandalous attacks on an opponent, especially in politics
Usage: informal
Examples
- The candidate refused to be a mudslinger and focused on policy issues instead.
- Political mudslingers often damage their own credibility with personal attacks.
- She was known as a mudslinger who would say anything to win an election.
- The debate turned ugly when both candidates became mudslingers.
- Voters grew tired of the mudslinger’s constant negative campaigning.
- The newspaper criticized politicians who acted like mudslingers rather than statesmen.