Crossword-Solution: DEFAMATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Defamation | n. | 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. |
We have 34 clues for the answer “DEFAMATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | 1 answer |
| Improper running down | 1 answer |
| CHRONIQUE scandaleuse | 1 answer |
| belittlement | 8 answers |
| cattiness | 8 answers |
| Vilification | 8 answers |
| denigration | 12 answers |
| INSULTING language | 12 answers |
| BACKSTABBING | 14 answers |
| disparagement | 17 answers |
| detraction | 27 answers |
| Calumny | 30 answers |
| Libel | 31 answers |
| mutter | 38 answers |
| Invention. | 39 answers |
| Slander | 41 answers |
| Barb | 46 answers |
| Backbiting | 48 answers |
| Aspersion | 48 answers |
| Fib | 49 answers |
| Brand | 55 answers |
| Obloquy | 56 answers |
| Malediction | 62 answers |
| Scandal | 64 answers |
| slur | 64 answers |
| CALL names | 64 answers |
| Disgrace | 65 answers |
| Blot | 73 answers |
| remonstrance | 74 answers |
| Harm | 77 answers |
| False-hood | 77 answers |
| Affront | 77 answers |
| Blemish | 81 answers |
| reproach | 82 answers |
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Sentences with DEFAMATION (5)
Success in that field appears to be the organisation of failure enlivened with defamation of character; and, much as I love pickles and hot water (in your true phrase) I shall take my pickles in future from Crosse and Blackwell and my hot water with a dose of good Glenlivat.
They might, indeed, have been corrected by the wholesome punishments reserved to and provided by the laws of the several States against falsehood and defamation, but public duties more urgent press on the time of public servants, and the offenders have therefore been left to find their punishment in the public indignation.
But the scene of defamation between the Froths and Brisk is notable as (with the Cabal idea in _The Way of the World_) the inspiration of the Scandal Scenes in Sheridan’s play.
Josephs, partly from benevolence, and partly from a vague fear that Smilash might at any moment take an action against him for defamation of character, said he had no doubt that he was a very cheap workman, and that it would be a charity to give him some little job to encourage him.
Now, what can bring Mademoiselle Chocardelle to Arcis? A pleasure trip, you will say, offered to her by the journalist, who combines with that object our daily defamation and his consequent earnings from the secret-service fund of the government.
Quotes with DEFAMATION (3)
How would your life be different if…You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day…You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.
Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation.
The world will praise you one moment and defame you the next. So why should we care for praise or defamation?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2021).