to do (a person) shame: to inflict injury or dishonour, offer reproach or obloquy (see also 3c). Also to sayor speak (one) shame; to sayor speak s…

transitive. To slander, revile, speak ill of; to mock, deride; to blame, censure.

transitive. With an abstract noun as object, as honour, shame, villainy, etc. To make (comments which are characterized by the specified quality…

to speak evil (Old English be) of: to speak maliciously, slanderously, abusively of; in later use perhaps regarded as a n., but in Old English and…

transitive. To tell lies about; esp. to slander or libel, to calumniate. Now rare.

To calumniate, deride, deceive.

transitive. To speak ill of (a person), blaspheme (a god); to abuse, slander, revile, vilify. Formerly also: †to rebuke, reproach (obsolete).

transitive. To bring into discredit; to slander.

transitive. To make false and damaging statements about (a person); to slander. Also with for, of, etc.: to accuse (a person) falsely of a certain…

figurative. To misrepresent or slander (a person).

To accuse, malign, speak evil of. Obsolete.

trans. To speak sharply or injuriously against; to calumniate (cf. backbite, v.); to carp at. intr. To find fault sharply or severely, speak…

transitive. To slander.

To defame or calumniate; to assail with slander; to spread slanderous reports about, speak evil of, traduce (a person, etc.).

To represent as bad; to vilify, defame, decry, disparage. Obsolete.

To speak to the injury of; to vilify, disparage, slander, belittle. Obsolete.

To detract from the character of, to slander, traduce, speak ill of. an institution, action, character, etc. Obsolete.

gen. To speak evil of, revile, calumniate, abuse.

transitive. To defame (a person).

To spread an ill report of (a person); to defame.

transitive. To impugn the good name or reputation of (a person); to denigrate, disparage; (Law) to damage the reputation of (a person…

transitive. To spread rumours concerning, report upon (a person, etc.); esp. to slander, defame. Obsolete.

intransitive. to say well (also evil, ill,etc.) of (also †by): to speak well or ill of; to say something to a person's credit or discredit. Now rare.

transitive. To speak ill or wrongly of, to traduce, slander.

to speak villainy of: to defame or throw discredit on (a person). Obsolete.

To spread an ill report of; to defame. Obsolete.

To abuse with words, revile, calumniate; = injure, v. 2.

transitive. To represent or portray in a false or negative way. With clause as object, or with object and complement, or object and infinitive…

transitive. To speak maliciously of, to malign. Obsolete.

figurative. To blacken, sully, or stain (character or reputation); to blacken the reputation of (a person, etc.); to defame.

transitive. To deprive of fame or honour; to bring into reproach or disrepute; to defame.

transitive. To speak ill of; to slander. Obsolete.

To defame, revile.

To impute disgrace or dishonour to (a person); to defame, calumniate.

transitive. To asperse with calumny, utter calumny regarding; to accuse or charge falsely and maliciously with something criminal or disreputable…

To utter false or malicious reports of (a person's) conduct; to slander, to charge slanderously (†with). Now somewhat rare. In early use also †to…

To speak ill of, abuse, malign, disparage.

To decry, defame, hold up to infamy. Obsolete.

transitive. To speak ill of, esp. (now always) falsely or maliciously; to defame, malign, vilify, slander; †to blame, censure (obsolete).

transitive. To speak evil of; to calumniate. Obsolete.

figurative. To stigmatize, calumniate, throw dirt at.

transitive. To speak insultingly or unkindly of or to (a person); to malign, revile, vilify (a person or thing).

To do injustice to (a person) by statement, imputation, opinion, etc.; to impute evil to, asperse or calumniate undeservedly; to discredit or…

To depreciate with abusive or slanderous language; to defame or traduce; to speak evil of.

To do outrage to (a person) in speech; to speak injuriously to or of; to insult, revile, abuse, slander offensively. Obsolete.

transitive. To bewitch, charm. Obsolete exc. Scottish.

transitive. To defame or discredit by the circulation of libellous statements; to accuse falsely and maliciously; spec. in Law, to publish a libel…

To defame; = infame, v. 2.

transitive. To assail with libels; to traduce, slander, calumniate.

transitive. To calumniate.

transitive. To asperse or befoul by squirting; also figurative in reference to abuse or defamation.

figurative. To blacken in character; to darken.

(a) To spread scandal concerning (a person); to defame. Now archaic and dialect (see Eng. Dial. Dict.). †(b) To vituperate, revile. Obsolete.

transitive. To cover or defile with dirt; figurative ‘to throw dirt at,’ to vilify.

figurative. To charge (a person) falsely with something; to asperse. Obsolete. rare.

To misrepresent injuriously. Obsolete.

transitive. To act the sycophant towards. To slander, calumniate, traduce.

To splash or stain with drops of fluid, mud, etc.; to bespatter; figurative to assail with obloquy or detraction.

= sugill, v. 2. Obsolete.

spec. To cover with abuse; to vilify or slander.

transitive. figurative. To stain, sully, or besmirch; spec. to slander or defame with false accusations or statements. Obsolete.

To spread false and injurious charges against; to detract from, slander, calumniate, traduce, defame, vilify. a person.

transitive. To abuse; to slander. Cf. mischief, n. phrases 2d. Obsolete.

transitive. To speak abusively or contemptuously of or to; to reproach; to vilify.

With on or upon. To cast a reflection (reflection, n. 9) on; to show in a bad light. Now rare. transitive. To assign (blame, fault, etc.) to; to…

transitive. To dishonour, disgrace, disparage.

transitive. Perhaps: to denigrate, to blacken. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To defame; to libel or slander.

transitive. To speak disparagingly of (a person). Cf. bad-mouth, v. Obsolete.

transitive. To abuse (a person) verbally; to insult, disparage, or slander (someone).

transitive. In extended and hyperbolic use. Esp. of a crowd: to subject (a person) to a verbal or physical attack; (of a journalist, commentator…

Chiefly British School slang. Now rare. transitive. To tease, torment, ‘rag’; to denigrate.

To calumniate.

U.S. colloquial. transitive. To criticize, denigrate, or reproach (a person); to berate. Cf. ding, v.2

transitive. To speak badly of, disparage; to speak maliciously about (a person who is absent). Cf. bad-mouth, v.

transitive. To announce, to spread (information) by word of mouth (frequently in passive with it). In later use (also): to denigrate (someone) (U.S…

transitive. To abuse or deprecate verbally; to criticize, slander, or gossip maliciously about (a person or thing); to disparage, ‘run down’.

colloquial (originally Australian). transitive. To attack, harass, pester, beset.