smear
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Smear tests - designed to protect - can instead retraumatise.
From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025
“I have a picture of me, Jane, Pat Smear and Belinda standing there,” Caffey says, “And we were looking at each other like, ‘You realize this was never a thought in our minds back then.’”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2025
Caffey then flashes back to a memory with Smear and his bandmate, frontman Bobby Pin, who had not yet adopted the new moniker Darby Crash.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2025
The article titled, "'We Can Bury Anyone': Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine" exposes the alleged system at work attempting to discredit Lively's reputation and experiences with Baldoni and Heath.
From Salon • Dec. 23, 2024
Smear some of the nastiness on him too?
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Vocabulary lists containing smear
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