Scaifing Edit Meaning

1.

v. Probing someone's personal life/past in an attempt to find information to publicly discredit the person; and failing that, simply making things up about the person. See also scaifed.

Different from blackmailin that the intent is always to go public with any information discovered/invented.

Bill Clinton's administration was the victim of a decade-long scaifing.

See scaifed, blackmail, scandal, slander, witch hunt, libel