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defaming

/dih-feym/US // dɪˈfeɪm //UK // (dɪˈfeɪm) //

诽谤,诋毁,诽谤性,诽谤罪

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    de·famed, de·fam·ing.

    • : to attack the good name or reputation of, as by uttering or publishing maliciously or falsely anything injurious; slander or libel; calumniate: The newspaper editorial defamed the politician.
    • : Archaic. to disgrace; bring dishonor upon.
    • : Archaic. to accuse.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbinflict libel or slander
Forms: defamed

Examples

  • Again today, Modi’s right-wing government has responded to the farmers’ protests by lying about and defaming its own citizens.

  • They think that their campaigns will stop or defame me, but they do the opposite.

  • An attempt to smear FBI investigator Robert Mueller with false sexual harassment charges was exposed, as well as a similar attempt to defame Anthony Fauci.

  • The unmitigated gall Kennedy displays in defaming the hard work of dedicated researchers is bad enough.

  • Miller had spent his life defaming Jews and decrying their influence on the United States.

  • And so not only are they not defaming Jews or Jewish values—they are, in the way they see fit, trying to support them.

  • In 2009 he published a book defaming Hitchens and Richard Dawkins because he was irked by their bellicose brand of atheism.

  • Their Newt-defaming spot, “Serial Hypocrisy” is an amalgam of all the ads described above.

  • He would appear to have devoted himself to the task of blackening poor George's character and defaming him.

  • If the only way we can appreciate our own morality is by defaming the majority of humanity, how contemptible must our morality he?

  • Christian ministers as a class, and Christian journals are expressly accused of falsifying history, of defaming "the mighty dead!"

  • You will silence the fellows, who deserve to have their tongues torn out for defaming a king's daughters.'

  • Oporinus: lived two years in close intimacy with Paracelsus as his secretary, and has been suspected of defaming his memory.