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Noun: defamation  `de-fu'mey-shun
  1. A false accusation of an offence or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
    - calumny, calumniation, obloquy, traducement, hatchet job
     
  2. An abusive attack on a person's character or good name
    - aspersion, calumny, slander, denigration

Derived forms: defamations

See also: defame

Type of: attack, blast, depreciation, derogation, disparagement, fire, flack, flak

Encyclopedia: Defamation

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