Difference between denigrate and defame
Definitions
verb
- charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
- cause to seem less serious; play down
Examples
These critics claim he denigrates the ‘real’ moral values of Sri Lankan rural life.
Many people use examples from ethology (the study of animal behaviour) and in particular primatology (the study of primates) ‘not just to support the idea of animal rights but to denigrate human claims of uniqueness and special status’.
It was normally considered bad manners to denigrate the dead, on the theory that they could not defend themselves.
Definitions
verb
- charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
Examples
The journalists have defamed me!
Upset over being branded as a child labour employer, India's apparel export body AEPC has sought access to key documents of the US Labour Department which were used to "defame" the
I'm sitting here chuckling at all the comments about how Clinton and Berger are being "defamed".
