Synonyms for defame

Grammar : Verb

Spell : dih-feym

Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈfeɪm

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Définition of defame

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 :

For those who wish to defame you will assert that I am wise, though I am not.
Extract from : « Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates » by Plato

I have done nothing to defame your character, in spite of what has passed.
Extract from : « The Day of Judgment » by Joseph Hocking

They not only defame Wilson, but they contend that the part we played in the war has been overestimated.
Extract from : « Idling in Italy » by Joseph Collins

On this principle they defame, persecute, and destroy every one who displeases them.
Extract from : « Letters To Eugenia » by Paul Henri Thiry Holbach

No cruelty must ever defame it, no malice, no gross bitterness!
Extract from : « The Sick-a-Bed Lady » by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

When we tell lies about our neighbor and slander or defame him in our conversation.
Extract from : « Luther's Small Catechism » by H. U. Sverdrup

We are outcasts from Deity, therefore we defame the place of our exile.
Extract from : « Imaginations and Reveries » by (A.E.) George William Russell

On the other hand why shouldn't they all double-cross and prey on and defame and applaud each other to their heart's content?
Extract from : « Blue-grass and Broadway » by Maria Thompson Daviess

I hope to be able to teach you that it's one thing to defy a board of directors, and it's another to defame a respectable man.
Extract from : « Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service » by Charles James Lever

That however, did not trouble him and he did everything that Pombal bade him to do, to defame and destroy the Society.
Extract from : « The Jesuits, 1534-1921 » by Thomas J. Campbell

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