mud-slinger

Jacobson has many talents – as a rhetorician, a mud-slinger, a purveyor of fine phrases and sprightly patter, as an indefatigable singer of the song of himself.

The mutterings of the old mud-slinger in his quieter moments reminds me very much of a Chilkat Mission Indian reciting the Lord's Prayer in his native tongue—just a rapid succession of deep gutturals.

In reply, confident Barney Samuel, who is not wasting much energy campaigning, cried: "Mud-slinger."

"He isn't in on that; he's a gentleman, you know; not a mud-slinger."

Flint was a malignant toad, a nauseous mud-slinger, a deliberate liar.