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to hurt someone's reputation through false statements- He threatened legal action if she continued to defame him in her articles.
- The journalists have defamed me!
- It was an expression coined by the majority party to defame the opposition as illegitimate.
- ...I think you are running a great risk of a prosecution for defamation of character.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- It defames my good name.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- The broken bit of mirror danced away from him; he picked it up and turned it over in his fingers, thinking, thinking of Dumbledore and the lies with which Rita Skeeter was defaming him...J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- PROCTOR, familiarly, with warmth, although he knows he is approaching the edge of Giles' tolerance with this: Is it the Devil's fault that a man cannot say you good morning without you clap him for defamation?Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- More important, the defamation lawsuits chilled sympathetic coverage of civil rights activism.Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
- It is forbidden to defame or slander another person.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
- Under American law, an accuser must prove that the allegations at the heart of a libel case are not only false and defamatory, but also have been recklessly, negligently, or deliberately spread.Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
- But I am defamed in her eyes.Oscar Wilde -- An Ideal Husband
- Madame defames me, and her guests defame me.Dickens, Charles -- Little Dorrit
- Defames my grey hairs rather than thine own?Sophocles -- Oedipus At Colonus
- If nothing else, we can always get him nailed for defamation of character.Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- Why the doctor here heard you cussing out and defaming one of the finest types of Republican congressmen, just this noon!Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
- I never hired scribblers to defame my rivals.David McCullough -- John Adams
- That the world, and men for whom His Son die, will not be given over to monsters, whose very existence would defame Him.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- My guilt thy growing virtues did defame; My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name.Virgil -- The Aeneid
- How Sir Suppinabiles told Sir Tristram how he was defamed in the court of King Arthur, and of Sir Lamorak.Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I
- Ah, gentle knight, said the king, have mercy upon my queen, courteous knight, for I am now in certain she is untruly defamed.Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II
defamation = the hurting of someone's reputation through false statements
defames = hurts someone's reputation through false statements
defaming = hurting someone's reputation through false statements
defamation = hurting of someone's reputation through false statements
defamation = the hurting of someone's reputation through false statements
defame = to hurt someone's reputation through false statements
defamatory = hurt someone's reputation (falsely)
defamed = with a reputation damaged through false statements