Antonyms for defame
dɪˈfeɪmde·fame

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1. defame

   Abuse covers all unreasonable or improper use or treatment by word or act. A tenant does not abuse rented property by "reasonable wear," though that may damage the property and injure its sale; he may abuse it by needless defacement or neglect. It is possible to abuse a man without harming him, as when the criminal vituperates the judge; or to harm a man without abusing him, as when the witness tells the truth about the criminal. Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense. One may be justly reproached. To impose on or to victimize one is to injure him by abusing his confidence. To persecute one is to ill-treat him for opinion's sake, commonly for religious belief; to oppress is generally for political or pecuniary motives. "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy," Deut. xxiv, 14. Misemploy, misuse, and pervert are commonly applied to objects rather than to persons. A dissolute youth misemploys his time, misuses his money and opportunities, harms his associates, perverts his talents, wrongs his parents, ruins himself, abuses every good gift of God.

   Antonyms:
   applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicate

   Synonyms:
   abuse, aggrieve, damage, defile, disparage, harm, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, injure, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pervert, prostitute, rail at, ravish, reproach, revile, ruin, slander, victimize, vilify, violate, vituperate, wrong

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1. defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirchverb

   charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone

   "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"

   Synonyms:
   besmirch, smudge, asperse, maculate, taint, smear, smutch, calumniate, tarnish, denigrate, minimize, slander, blur, defile, sully, stain, daub, smirch, corrupt, belittle, cloud, derogate

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1. defameverb

   Synonyms:
   calumniate, malign, vilify, lampoon, vituperate, slander

How to use defame in a sentence?

1. Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan:

   There are different factions of (witchcraft). While it doesn't bother me to release that particular thing, I most assuredly do not want to defame or demean any particular practice.

2. The SPLC:

   All anti-Muslim hate groups exhibit extreme hostility toward Muslims, anti-Muslim hate groups also broadly defame Islam, which they tend to treat as a monolithic and evil religion. These groups generally hold that Islam has no values in common with other cultures, is inferior to the West and is a violent political ideology rather than a religion.

3. John Pierce:

   He has been defamed by pretty much every mainstream media outlet, and untold numbers of celebrities and politicians and the current President of the United States, so I would anticipate you'll see a lot of defamation lawsuits from him soon. And…people need to realize that they can't defame folks the way they did to Kyle.

4. Pat Boone:

   As much as I’ve enjoyed ‘ Saturday Night Live, ’ they went over the line, and believers in God deserve an apology, i wo n’t waste my breath demanding an apology. They don’t answer to me. They answer to the one they defame, and there are consequences.

5. Pope Francis:

   This is a disease of people who seek tirelessly to multiply power only aimed at calumny, and to defame and discredit others.

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