defamer

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From defame + -er.

A PARTIAL MAN Is the opposite extreme to a defamer, for the one speaks ill falsely, and the other well, and both slander the truth. — Microcosmography: or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters, John Earle
This was more than the supposed corpse could bear; and jumping from the coffin, was in the act of following his defamers, when the whole party burst into an immoderate fit of laughter. — English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, John Timbs
For I find in some copies that the title is not “For Metellus,” but “What he wrote to Metellus;” whereas the speech is delivered in the name of Caesar, vindicating Metellus and himself from the aspersions cast upon them by their common defamers. — The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete, Suetonius

maligner, slanderer, vilifier, libeler, backbiter, traducer

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