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defaming

noun as in meanness

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Again today, Modi’s right-wing government has responded to the farmers’ protests by lying about and defaming its own citizens.

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They think that their campaigns will stop or defame me, but they do the opposite.

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An attempt to smear FBI investigator Robert Mueller with false sexual harassment charges was exposed, as well as a similar attempt to defame Anthony Fauci.

The unmitigated gall Kennedy displays in defaming the hard work of dedicated researchers is bad enough.

Miller had spent his life defaming Jews and decrying their influence on the United States.

And so not only are they not defaming Jews or Jewish values—they are, in the way they see fit, trying to support them.

In 2009 he published a book defaming Hitchens and Richard Dawkins because he was irked by their bellicose brand of atheism.

Their Newt-defaming spot, “Serial Hypocrisy” is an amalgam of all the ads described above.

He would appear to have devoted himself to the task of blackening poor George's character and defaming him.

If the only way we can appreciate our own morality is by defaming the majority of humanity, how contemptible must our morality he?

Christian ministers as a class, and Christian journals are expressly accused of falsifying history, of defaming "the mighty dead!"

You will silence the fellows, who deserve to have their tongues torn out for defaming a king's daughters.'

Oporinus: lived two years in close intimacy with Paracelsus as his secretary, and has been suspected of defaming his memory.

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On this page you'll find 90 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to defaming, such as: null, calumniatory, contemptuous, contumelious, damaging, and debasing.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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