Related Clues:

• Cast aspersions on
• Practiced yellow journalism
• Under political attack, maybe
• Dragged through the mud
• Spread, as jam
• Bad-mouthed
• Finger-painted
• Maligned
• Bedaubed
• Practiced yellow journalism, perhaps
• Tarnished
• Participated in an ugly campaign
• Slandered
• Ran down
• Libeled