Voters seemed in a grumpy mood throughout the gubernatorial campaign, expressing frustration with the relentlessly negative tone of the contest.

If boiled down to mere headlines, they said, that news can seem relentlessly negative and may turn off viewers.

But I don't think our coverage is negative or relentlessly negative.

The messages they receive are relentlessly negative.

The race was fiercely contested and, in the final weeks, relentlessly negative.

Democrats and other analysts said the Republicans mistakenly ran a relentlessly negative campaign.

In them, he accuses Republicans of running relentlessly negative campaigns since 2002, stoking Americans' fears without offering any positive vision.

The press is at once shallow and relentlessly negative.

A. Bob Torricelli has run $3 million worth of relentlessly negative ads.

Mr Bhattacharya's style is argumentative and lively, but his tone is relentlessly negative.