Crossword-Solution: DEFAME 6 letters, 70 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Defame v. t. To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to
disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by
slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse.
Defame v. t. To render infamous; to bring into disrepute.
Defame v. t. To charge; to accuse.
Defame n. Dishonor.

We have 70 clues for the answer “DEFAME”

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attack the good reputation of 1 answer
31 Bad-mouth 1 answer
ATTACK good reputation of 1 answer
Blacken one s name 1 answer
Give a bad rep 1 answer
Give a bad rep to 1 answer
Give a black eye 1 answer
Harm the reputation of 1 answer
It often goes with de fortune? 1 answer
Ruin a reputation 1 answer
Run down verbally 1 answer
Subject to slander 1 answer
attack the good name and reputation of someone 1 answer
Libel or slander 2 answers
Slander or libel 2 answers
Do some mudslinging 2 answers
Cast aspersions. 3 answers
Do a hatchet job 3 answers
Sling mud at 5 answers
Vilipend. 6 answers
Drag through the mud 9 answers
ACCUSE OF A WRONG OR AN INADEQUACY 10 answers
Cast aspersions on. 10 answers
AN ATTACK INTENDED TO RUIN SOMEONE'S REPUTATION 10 answers
Scandalize 12 answers
stigmatise 13 answers
Accuse falsely 13 answers
SPEAK ill of 15 answers
MAKE bad use of 19 answers
Scandalise 21 answers
make black 21 answers
traduce 24 answers
Deprecate 24 answers
Implicate 25 answers
dispraise 26 answers
Debunk? 26 answers
BACKBITE 27 answers
Abase 28 answers
Gibbet 28 answers
Calumniate 29 answers
Vilify 29 answers
LOWER in character 30 answers
Libel 31 answers
knock down 32 answers
COMPROMISE ___ 33 answers
Prosecute 34 answers
Impugn 34 answers
Run down 38 answers
smirch 39 answers
Slander 41 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEFAME (5)

Men asperse their neighbors by malignant insinuations; they defame by advancing charges to blacken or sully their fair fame; they slander or calumniate by spreading injurious reports which are false, or by magnifying slight faults into serious errors or crimes.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
And me were lever deed than hir defame, 565 As nolde god but-if I sholde have Hir honour lever than my lyf to save! `Thus am I lost, for ought that I can see; For certeyn is, sin that I am hir knight, I moste hir honour levere han than me 570 In every cas, as lovere oughte of right.
Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer 1995
Thus are we ministers of God’s own wish: that the world, and men for whom His Son die, will not be given over to monsters, whose very existence would defame Him.
Dracula Bram Stoker 1995
Basina speaks the language of nature; the Franks, who had seen her in their youth, might converse with Gregory in their old age; and the bishop of Tours could not wish to defame the mother of the first Christian king.] 9 (return) [ The Abbe Dubos (Hist.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 1996
What is to be done with those unoffending persons? I will not run amuck and vilify and defame them, as teetotal tracts and platforms would most assuredly do, if the question were one of drinking instead of driving: I merely ask what is to be done with them! The reply admits of no dispute whatever.
The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1997

Quotes with DEFAME (3)

The quickest way a person can defame your character is by taking something you said out of context. But Fear Not. Everyone that was ever Anyone always had their words taken out of context. If you can't handle having your words twisted up, then leadership is not for you. Leadership is reserved for the ‪#‎BRAVE‬.
Tiffany Winfree
If you praise the virtues of the person who is two degrees higher than you, if you worship him, if you serve him; this is known as aradhana (veneration; worship). If you say bad things about him, defame him; it is known as viradhana (despise). Viradhana (despise) results in your down fall and aradhana (worship) results in your rise upwards.
Dada Bhagwan
The world will praise you one moment and defame you the next. So why should we care for praise or defamation?
Dada Bhagwan
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 66 times in crossword archives (1959–2025).