Synonyms for defamer
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : dih-feym |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈfeɪm |
Top 10 synonyms for defamer Other synonyms for the word defamer
- archenemy
- aristarch
- asperser
- assailant
- assassin
- attacker
- backbiter
- backseat driver
- bad person
- belittler
- betrayer
- blamer
- calumniator
- carper
- caviler
- censor
- censurer
- complainant
- complainer
- contender
- criticizer
- defamer
- defiler
- depreciator
- disapprover
- disparager
- disputant
- disputer
- doubter
- emulator
- falsifier
- faultfinder
- fifth column
- fretter
- hypercritic
- informer
- inquisitor
- invader
- maligner
- muckraker
- mud-slinger
- murderer
- nagger
- niggler
- nit-picker
- nitpicker
- opponent
- opposition
- other side
- panner
- prosecutor
- quibbler
- rebel
- reviler
- revolutionary
- rival
- saboteur
- scolder
- seditionist
- sidewalk superintendent
- slanderer
- spy
- terrorist
- traducer
- traitor
- vilifier
- villain
- worrier
- zapper
Définition of defamer
Origin :- c.1300, from Old French defamer (13c., Modern French diffamer), from Medieval Latin defamare, from Latin diffamare "to spread abroad by ill report, make a scandal of," from dis- suggestive of ruination + fama "a report, rumor" (see fame (n.)). Related: Defamed; defaming.
- As in detractor : noun derogator
- As in niggler : noun critic
- As in nitpicker : noun critic
- As in quibbler : noun critic
- As in critic : noun faultfinder, detractor
- As in enemy : noun someone hated or competed against
- A thief, debtor, slanderer, or defamer may become the slave of the one he has wronged.
- Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
- I defy the ingenuity of man to show that Mr. Hastings is not the defamer of the service.
- Extract from : « The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XI. (of 12) » by Edmund Burke
- It is not surprising that the eloquent Greek woman thus serves the defamer of her sex.
- Extract from : « Woman and Socialism » by August Bebel
- Is the opposite extreme to a defamer, for the one speaks ill falsely, and the other well, and both slander the truth.
- Extract from : « Microcosmography » by John Earle
- Far better it was that the husband should prove the defamer of his wife, than that my darling child should prove a profligate.
- Extract from : « Jane Talbot » by Charles Brockden Brown
- The courts cannot protect from its venom, and to kill a defamer and a falsifier is not yet adjudged as legalized slaughter.
- Extract from : « Rosemary and Rue » by Amber
- Hereafter you will stand in the pillory of history as a defamer—a calumniator of the dead.
- Extract from : « The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) » by Robert G. Ingersoll
- As an index of public sentiment in the community where the defamed and the defamer resided, I will state two facts.
- Extract from : « Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? » by John B. Remsburg
- You are a property thief, a receiver of stolen goods, a defamer of character.
- Extract from : « The Price of the Prairie » by Margaret Hill McCarter
Antonyms for defamer
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