personal attack
Example Sentences
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The 41-year-old - who became Cambridge's youngest ever black professor in 2023 - denies any plagiarism and said the recent furore had led to "an unrelenting level of public scrutiny and personal attack".
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Riglar added Cusack thought the coach had made a "personal attack" on her by not putting her in the starting line-up for matches.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
The closest he comes to a good old swipe at his former boss is this delicious line: “Trump did not devise the personal attack in politics, though he may have perfected it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
Bondi’s insults got the most press, because she would respond to any hard question by bringing up some irrelevant personal attack on whatever Democrat had her dead to rights.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2025
Rush took any challenge, whether from a disease or from a colleague, as a personal attack to be confronted and conquered.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
