swiftboat

動詞

アメリカ英語軽蔑的他動詞広義

(US, politics, derogatory, transitive) To attack a politician with specious claims.

日本語の意味

政治家を虚偽または根拠の乏しい主張で攻撃すること / 政治家に対して、誤ったまたは誤解を招く主張を用いて攻撃すること / 政治家を事実に反する、誤った表現で非難すること

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During the campaign, several operatives tried to swiftboat the senator with baseless allegations.

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選挙運動中、数人の工作員が根拠のない申し立てで上院議員を中傷しようとした。

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意味（1）

(US, politics, derogatory, transitive) To attack a politician with specious claims.

No one should have been surprised that the Republicans would try to swiftboat Hillary in 2016, turning an accomplished diplomat into a feckless bungler who lied to cover up her own failures.

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意味（2）

(by extension) To smear; to attack someone or something's reputation using slander, misrepresentation, or false accusations.

The Borgia family has had such a bad reputation over all these hundreds of years. Some of it is merited, and for some of it, they were swiftboated. The cardinals hired writers to write bad things about them.

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swiftboats

（ present singular third-person ）

swiftboating

（ participle present ）

swiftboated

（ participle past ）

swiftboated

（ past ）

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