whispering campaign

Though he was careful not to appear in public in his wheelchair, there was a whispering campaign that Roosevelt was not physically fit for the presidency.

Mr Brentnall said in the years that followed his conviction, there was a "whispering campaign" in the community with people calling him a "thief" and a "fraudster".

“They’re like an unwritten whispering campaign that has taken on the force of law,” he said.

He said he did not believe Ms. Patel’s denials that she had orchestrated a whispering campaign against him with the news media.

Over the past few months, so-called "friends" of the prince have mounted a whispering campaign about the photo trying to undercut its authenticity.