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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

defamation = the hurting of someone's reputation through false statements

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

It defames my good name.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind

defames = hurts someone's reputation through false statements

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

defaming = hurting someone's reputation through false statements

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

defamation = hurting of someone's reputation through false statements

More important, the defamation lawsuits chilled sympathetic coverage of civil rights activism.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy

defamation = the hurting of someone's reputation through false statements

It is forbidden to defame or slander another person.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

defame = to hurt someone's reputation through false statements

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

defamatory = hurt someone's reputation (falsely)

But I am defamed in her eyes.
Oscar Wilde -- An Ideal Husband

defamed = with a reputation damaged through false statements

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

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