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Grammar : Verb
Spell : dih-feym
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈfeɪm



Definition of defamed

Origin :
  • c.1300, from Old French defamer (13c., Modern French diffamer), from Medieval Latin defamare, from Latin diffamare "to spread abroad by ill report, make a scandal of," from dis- suggestive of ruination + fama "a report, rumor" (see fame (n.)). Related: Defamed; defaming.
  • verb inflict libel or slander
Example sentences :
  • When you go back to England, you will defend us when we are defamed?
  • Extract from : « Tancred » by Benjamin Disraeli
  • His facetious rejoinder was: "Was ever the Father of his Country so defamed?"
  • Extract from : « As I Remember » by Marian Gouverneur
  • I, who stood for Him in my pride, have defamed Him in my vanity.
  • Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible:The Book of Numbers » by Robert A. Watson
  • I've been defamed often enough, I hope, to be above minding it.
  • Extract from : « Camilla » by Fanny Burney
  • He has robbed the fatherless, he has defamed his friend, he has built his house in iniquity.
  • Extract from : « Christmas Evans » by Paxton Hood
  • Your cousin has defamed and slandered you: without relenting and without ceasing.
  • Extract from : « The Orange Girl » by Walter Besant
  • He who ventured to be thus eclectic would be defamed as Paine was.
  • Extract from : « English Secularism » by George Jacob Holyoake
  • But our father or our mother, the one or the other, will be defamed, and our name dishonoured.
  • Extract from : « Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) » by William Davy Watson
  • She only defamed my principles, but you are corrupting them.
  • Extract from : « Coelebs In Search of a Wife » by Hannah More
  • The Curé of Oirschot hated her, and, why no one knew, he defamed her throughout the town.
  • Extract from : « The Cathedral » by Joris-Karl Huysmans

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