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Verb
/diˈfām/,
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defamed, past participle; defamed, past tense; defaming, present participle; defames, 3rd person singular present;
  1. Damage the good reputation of (someone); slander or libel
    • - he claimed that the article defamed his family
  1. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
  2. (defamation) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
  3. (defamation) aspersion: an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
  4. (Defames) Defamation—also called calumny, vilification, slander (for transitory statements), and libel (for written, broadcast, or otherwise published words)—is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, ...
  5. (Defamation (film)) Defamation (Hashmatsa) is a 2009 documentary film by award-winning filmmaker Yoav Shamir. The film examines antisemitism, and in particular the way perceptions of antisemitism affect Israeli and U.S. politics. ...
  6. to try to diminish the reputation of; to publish a libel about
  7. (defamation) Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion
  8. (Defamed) An epithet applied to an animal which has lost its tail.
  9. (defamation) The making of false, derogatory statements about a person's character, morals, abilities, business practices or financial status. (Includes libel, which is written, and slander, which is spoken).
  10. (defamation) When 1 person hurts another person’s character, fame, or reputation by making false and malicious statements that are not protected by law.
  11. (Defamation) the ‘’publishing of a statement that tends to lower one in the estimation of right thinking members of society’’.
  12. (Defamation) A false statement that injures another's reputation in the community.
  13. (DEFAMATION) The publication of a statement that injures a person's reputation. Libel and slander are defamation.
  14. (defamation) Libelous or slanderous statements that cause injury to another person.
  15. (Defamation) "[I]t is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of the public, and that the common-law rules that subject the libeler to responsibility for the public offense, as well as for the private injury, are not abolished ...
  16. (Defamation) (legal) a communication that is false, or made with careless disregard for the truth, and results in injury to the reputation of another
  17. (Defamation) A form of misrepresentation. Many state laws provide penalties for verbal or printed circulation of materials calculated to injure any life insurance company's business or reputation, or for the abetting of such acts.
  18. (Defamation) An actionable injury suffered by communication of lies in either speech or in print. See libel and slander.
  19. (Defamation) Defamatory speech distributed over the Internet can result in civil liability for the defamer.
  20. (Defamation) Saying or writing something false about a living person that is proven to damage their reputation in the eyes of right-minded people. (See also Libel and Slander)
  21. (Defamation) Statements or incidents which make false claims against an individual, company, organisation, etc. which may professionally or personally affect their reputation or credibility.
  22. (Defamation) Written or oral statements made by one person to another, and made public ("published"), which tend to bring the character or reputation of that person into disrepute, or to expose them to unreasonable personal embarrassment. ...
  23. (Defamation) You agree not to post or transmit any content in violation of any applicable law of libel or defamation in the United States or elsewhere.
  24. (Defamation) injury to a living person or organization through the written or spoken work-which is untrue. If what you say/write is true, it can't be defamation.