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Definition of Defame
1. Verb. Charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone. "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
Generic synonyms: Accuse, Charge
Specialized synonyms: Assassinate, Libel, Badmouth, Drag Through The Mud, Malign, Traduce
Derivative terms: Aspersion, Aspersion, Calumny, Calumny, Defamation, Defamation, Defamatory, Defamer, Denigration, Denigratory, Slander, Slander, Slanderer, Smear, Smirch
Definition of Defame
1. v. t. To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse.
2. n. Dishonor.
Definition of Defame
1. Verb. to try to diminish the reputation of. ¹
2. Verb. to publish a libel about. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Defame
1. to attack the good name of [v -FAMED, -FAMING, -FAMES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defame
Literary usage of Defame
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... tarnish, stigmatize (rare or literary), blot, blur, spot, cloud, blacken,
darken, defile, foul, smirch, defame, asperse (rare), denigrate (rare), ..."
2. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"versaries did not cease; they endeavoured to defame Friends with many false and
scandalous reports, which they spread through the island Whereupon I, ..."
3. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Evidence, and Digest of Proofs, in Civil by Thomas Starkie (1891)
"... whether they were used with an intention to defame, or with good faith to
communicate facts, in the knowledge of which the party had an interest (r). ..."
4. Matthew Paris's English History: From the Year 1235 to 1273 by Matthew Paris, John Allen Giles (1853)
"... or defame such a great friend and benefactor of the Church, by whom the whole
Christian army was released from imminent peril of famine. ..."
5. The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke (1867)
"... whose penetration he cannot elude, and whose decision will justify those
managers whose characters he attempted to defame. But this is not all. ..."
6. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1917)
"... although the writer intended to defame the plaintiff.8 So also a newspaper
publisher has been held not liable in damages for ludicrous but innocent ..."
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