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defame

verb

To harm or diminish the reputation of.

  • To defame somebody

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The word 'defame' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that someone or something's reputation or character has been harmed by false or damaging comments. Example: He was accused of defaming his rival on social media.

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"I am a believer in anti-corruption bodies but they've got to run it seriously and not defame people and not grill people when they don't have any real evidence".

Let's recap, shall we? Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 9.50pm AEST12:50 No, we cannot continue to defame San Marino.

This was a clear interference in the legal investigation and an unsubstantiated claim and thus needed to be corrected.Freedom of speech is not a freedom to defame.

"According to our lawyers, I don't need this".If the political establishment sought to defame Mr Babiš, it is clear that animus runs both ways.

They argue that journalists are often poorly trained, biased and prone to defame institutions and individuals.

But the lower house of parliament has just finished discussing a law that includes ill-defined bans on "discussion that would ridicule, offend or defame an individual" and, more vaguely still, on anything that has an impact on "the manners and psychology of people, especially children".

To suggest there is an argument about the relevance of this study to commercial seafood is an egregious distortion of the facts and an alarmist attempt to make the study newsworthy.The only person quoted in your article is allowed to defame the tuna industry.

Last month in Tunis Salafists smashed a cinema that was showing a mildly provocative film falsely said to defame Islam.

The attack a year ago on Malala Yousafzai, a teenager whom the Taliban tried to kill because she believed in education for girls, is suspected by many to have been a foreign plot to defame the Pakistani Taliban.

A "plot to defame" the city was connected, he said, to Iran's coming presidential poll.

Opposition parties have been forbidden to "use words or facts that defame other politicians".

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