defamer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who damages another person's reputation by making false or malicious statements

   The journalist sued his anonymous defamer after tracing the fabricated claims.

Formed from defame + the agent suffix -er. Defame entered English through Old French from Latin diffamare, "to spread an unfavorable report," built from dis- + fama ("report, reputation").

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