Synonyms for defamed

Grammar : Verb

Spell : dih-feym

Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈfeɪm

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Définition 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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