- Criticise with malice
- Denigrate
- Speak ill of
- Back in the system, a federalist admitted libel
- Denigrate
- Slander
- Spoil one’s name
- To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to
disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by
slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse.
- To render infamous; to bring into disrepute.
- To charge; to accuse.