defamation   (Sound)

The noun defamation has 2 senses

• defamation, calumny, calumniation, obloquy, traducement, hatchet job -- (a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions)


• aspersion, calumny, slander, defamation, denigration -- (an abusive attack on a person's character or good name)