Vocabulary Word
Word: defame
Definition: harm someone's reputation; malign; speak evil of; slander; N. defamation; ADJ. defamatory
Definition: harm someone's reputation; malign; speak evil of; slander; N. defamation; ADJ. defamatory
Sentences Containing 'defame'
said Uriah, in the same low voice, and breaking out into a clammy heat, which he wiped from his forehead, with his long lean hand, 'to buy over my clerk, who is the very scum of society,--as you yourself were, Copperfield, you know it, before anyone had charity on you,--to defame me with his lies?
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