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Definition of swift-boat in US English: swift-boatverb [with object]informal Target (a politician or public figure) with a campaign of personal attacks. when he got swift-boated, his campaign staffers didn't sit silently organized smearing and swift-boating of public figures Example sentencesExamples - Maybe swift-boating will disappear this year.
- Both candidates showed that they will not be swift-boated.
- It was one of the very first issues to be swift-boated by social conservatives.
- Are you sick and tired of seeing all these Republican candidates swift-boating each other?
- In spite of continued attempts to swift-boat him, he remains one of America’s great naval leaders and patriots.
- It is at least an open question as to whether Democrats this year will attempt to match the Republicans in their willingness to "swift-boat".
- Anyone who thinks he won't be swift-boated is living in a dream.
- It's good practice for serious swift-boating.
- In Iowa yesterday, a reporter asked former House Speaker Gingrich if he felt he was being swift-boated.
- He had been swift-boated in August.
- I think the idea that you can go into the general election and expect there not to be any negative attacks, or any effort to sort of swift-boat whoever our candidate is, is not realistic.
- However we can also lie, spin, smear, defame, swift-boat, and (in one worrying recent case from the sewer) threaten violence.
- He says his wife is being swift-boated by her opponents.
- He's so competitive, they're now swift-boating him.
- Don't argue with them, swift-boat them. Find some embarrassing quote from an old interview.
- In the US, swift-boating is now a regular tactic.
- This is how swift-boating differs from its cousin McCarthyism, which deals in totally baseless charges that would be deeply serious if true.
- The raw material for swift-boating this year is already apparent.
- "There is a feeling that Kerry did not run an effective campaign because he allowed himself to be swift-boated," said Gallagher.
- Obama told reporters he won't be swift-boated.
Origin 2004: with allusion to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a political action committee that funded an advertising campaign criticizing 2004 US presidential candidate Senator John Kerry's record of military service aboard a swift boat, a type of US Navy patrol craft, during the Vietnam War. Definition of swift-boat in US English: swift-boatverb [with object]informal Target (a politician or public figure) with a campaign of personal attacks. when he got swift-boated, his campaign staffers didn't sit silently organized smearing and swift-boating of public figures Example sentencesExamples - Anyone who thinks he won't be swift-boated is living in a dream.
- Maybe swift-boating will disappear this year.
- Are you sick and tired of seeing all these Republican candidates swift-boating each other?
- However we can also lie, spin, smear, defame, swift-boat, and (in one worrying recent case from the sewer) threaten violence.
- It was one of the very first issues to be swift-boated by social conservatives.
- In Iowa yesterday, a reporter asked former House Speaker Gingrich if he felt he was being swift-boated.
- Obama told reporters he won't be swift-boated.
- Both candidates showed that they will not be swift-boated.
- It is at least an open question as to whether Democrats this year will attempt to match the Republicans in their willingness to "swift-boat".
- This is how swift-boating differs from its cousin McCarthyism, which deals in totally baseless charges that would be deeply serious if true.
- The raw material for swift-boating this year is already apparent.
- He had been swift-boated in August.
- It's good practice for serious swift-boating.
- He says his wife is being swift-boated by her opponents.
- In the US, swift-boating is now a regular tactic.
- He's so competitive, they're now swift-boating him.
- Don't argue with them, swift-boat them. Find some embarrassing quote from an old interview.
- "There is a feeling that Kerry did not run an effective campaign because he allowed himself to be swift-boated," said Gallagher.
- In spite of continued attempts to swift-boat him, he remains one of America’s great naval leaders and patriots.
- I think the idea that you can go into the general election and expect there not to be any negative attacks, or any effort to sort of swift-boat whoever our candidate is, is not realistic.
Origin 2004: with allusion to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a political action committee that funded an advertising campaign criticizing 2004 US presidential candidate Senator John Kerry's record of military service aboard a swift boat, a type of US Navy patrol craft, during the Vietnam War. |