Related Clues:

• Cast aspersions on
• Practiced yellow journalism
• Under political attack, maybe
• Spread, as jam
• Finger-painted
• Practiced yellow journalism, perhaps
• Tarnished
• Participated in an ugly campaign
• Slandered
• Slung mud at
• Libeled
• Attacked politically
• Slandered on the stump
• Spread messily
• Made a mess, maybe