Synonyms: drag through the mud, traduce, malign, badmouth
Definition: speak unfavorably about
Usage: She badmouths her husband everywhere
Similar words: sully, defame, denigrate, calumniate, besmirch, asperse, slander, smear, smirch
Definition: charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
Usage: The journalists have defamed me! The article in the paper sullied my reputation
Synonyms: malefic, malevolent, malign, evil
Definition: having or exerting a malignant influence
Usage: malevolent stars; a malefic force
Similar words: maleficent
Definition: harmful or evil in intent or effect
Synonyms: malign
Definition: evil or harmful in nature or influence
Usage: prompted by malign motives; believed in witches and malign spirits; gave him a malign look; a malign lesion
Similar words: cancerous
Definition: like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads
Usage: remorse was cancerous within him; pornography is cancerous to the moral development of our children