ad hominem
C1CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Directed at an opponent's character rather than at the substance of their argument.
The rebuttal collapsed into ad hominem, attacking the delegate's background instead of his proposal.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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