What does personal attack mean?

Definitions for personal attack
per·sonal at·tack

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  1. personal attacknoun

    Making of an abusive remark instead of providing evidence when examining another person's claims or comments.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of personal attack in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of personal attack in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of personal attack in a Sentence

  1. Federico Finchelstein:

    What they expect from the media is praise. This is another element in this character and in other leaders of this type, which is that they are extremely messianic and narcissistic, whatever they see, they see as a personal attack against them.

  2. Soochow University:

    Beijing is taking a cautious attitude. It has not launched personal attack on Tsai nor criticized her position.

  3. Ashin Wirathu:

    I call on religious and political leaders in Myanmar to unequivocally condemn all forms of incitement to hatred, including this abhorrent public personal attack, it's intolerable for U.N. Special Rapporteurs to be treated in this way.

  4. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte:

    While the immediate cause was my strong comments to certain press questions that elicited concern and distress, we also regret it came across as a personal attack on the US president. Our primary intention is to chart an independent foreign policy while promoting closer ties with all nations, especially the US with which we had had a longstanding partnership, we look forward to ironing out differences arising out of national priorities and perceptions, and working in mutually responsible ways for both countries.

  5. Ben Carson:

    I would like to say to him that the intention was not to talk to him, but about what motivates me, if he took that as a personal attack on him, I apologize, it was certainly not the intent.


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  • هجوم شخصيArabic
  • osobní útokCzech
  • ataque personalSpanish
  • व्यक्तिगत हमलाHindi
  • osobisty atakPolish
  • การโจมตีส่วนบุคคลThai
  • ذاتی حملہUrdu

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