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assailing

adjective as in offensive

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noun as in assailment

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Giuliani assailed mail-in voting, calling it “outrageous” and “very suspicious,” even though Pennsylvania’s mail-in balloting was approved by a Republican state legislative majority in 2019.

The party’s official 2020 platform shrunk to a brief resolution that assailed the news media and heaped praise on the president.

But the critics assailing her ‘sick and twisted tale’ have clearly never been artists.

Assailing her at every turn has been her rapacious political rival, Tony Abbott.

He spends his time assailing big government as akin to Big Brother depriving people of their rights—a theme that plays well here.

She felt the temptation assail her, as of late it had been assailing her faintly, to explore this territory.

But Richard would cross himself and mutter prayers, calling on every saint to fight against the assailing devils.

But those who expected the Blackfeet to flee in panic when they observed the doubling of the assailing forces, were much mistaken.

All the while the Indians were lying in wait and assailing all who ventured beyond the fortifications of the camp.

He shrank from assailing the Hofcavalier until he should have won the others, knowing well the obstinacy of her resolution.

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On this page you'll find 105 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to assailing, such as: combative, contentious, destructive, intrusive, threatening, and advancing.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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