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Defamation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Defamation has 2 senses
- defamation(n = noun.communication) calumniation, calumny, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement - a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions; Array is a kind of depreciation, derogation, disparagement
- defamation(n = noun.act) aspersion, calumny, denigration, slander - an abusive attack on a person's character or good name; Array is a kind of attack
has particulars: assassination, blackwash, character assassination, malignment, smear, vilification, libel, slander, name calling, names, epithet, name
Derived form verb defame1
Derived form verb defame1
THESAURUS
Defamation
attack, backbiting, backstabbing, belittlement, blackening, calumny, character assassination, defamation of character, defilement, denigration, depreciation, disparagement, malicious defamation, muckraking, mudslinging, name-calling, revilement, scandal, slander, smear, smear campaign, smear word, tale, vilificationROGET THESAURUS
Defamation
Detraction
N detraction, disparagement, depreciation, vilification, obloquy, scurrility, scandal, defamation, aspersion, traducement, slander, calumny, obtrectation, evil-speaking, backbiting, scandalum magnatum, personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade, chronique scandaleuse, roorback, sarcasm, cynicism, criticism (disapprobation), invective, envenomed tongue, spretae injuria formae, personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade, chronique scandaleuse, roorback, detractor, detracting, defamatory, detractory, derogatory, deprecatory, catty, disparaging, libelous, scurrile, scurrilous, abusive, foul- spoken, foul-tongued, foul-mouthed, slanderous, calumnious, calumniatory, sarcastic, sardonic, sarcastic, satirical, cynical, critical, damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, and without sneering, teach the rest to sneer, another lie nailed to the counter, cut men's throats with whisperings, foul whisperings are abroad, soft-buzzing slander, virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.
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