(פ') להעליל; להלעיז

v. slander; bad-mouth

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Verb
1. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
(synonym) defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, smear, sully, besmirch
(hypernym) charge, accuse
(hyponym) assassinate
(derivation) defamation, calumny, obloquy, traducement, hatchet job

v. calumniate, libel, slander; bad-mouth

(v. t.)
To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.
  

(v. i.)
To propagate evil reports with a design to injure the reputation of another; to make purposely false charges of some offense or crime.
  

(v.) = vilify ; slander ; smear ; malign ; revile ; defame.
Ex: Robert Kent's sole agenda is to attack Cuba and vilify the Cuban library community while supporting the US government's interventionist destabilization policies.
Ex: Just because the facts don't support his views, he threatens, slanders, lies, obfuscates and charges 'lies, hypocrisy and cruelty'.
Ex: As a result of this policy hundreds of priests have been been suspended from ministry and have had their names publicly smeared without proof or even credible evidence.
Ex: To accomplish this higher purpose, Panizzi argued, required a deliberately designed 'system,' and his much maligned rules, whatever their individual merits or demerits, were intended to embody that system.
Ex: The pot calls the kettle black may be used when one scoundrel reviles another -- they are tarred with the same brush.
Ex: A former Thai magazine editor has been sentenced to 11 years in jail for defaming the country's king.