defame - use in sentences

Object

  • memory: In Germany, for example, the " Auschwitz lie " law makes it a crime to " defame the memory of the dead.
  • people: You will not participate to a forum to harass, attack, discriminate or defame people.
  • religion: You may not defame any religion, race, nation, gender, or sexual orientation.

Modifying Another Word

  • n't: Our defamation laws are tricky and, uh, a little unfair but you ca n't defame the dead.
  • not: Oh wait, I live in Britain, not Texas please do not defame Texas.

Preposition: in

  • way: It is a serious matter when the good name of an organization is defamed in this way.

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