defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch
(verb) 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”
minimize, belittle, denigrate, derogate
(verb) cause to seem less serious; play down; “Don’t belittle his influence”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
denigrate (third-person singular simple present denigrates, present participle denigrating, simple past and past participle denigrated)
(transitive) To criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.
(transitive) To treat as worthless; belittle, degrade or disparage.
(rare) To blacken.
• antigreed, dinergate, giant reed, gratinĂ©ed
Source: Wiktionary
Den"i*grate, v. t. Etym: [L. denigrare; de- + nigrare to blacken, niger black.]
1. To blacken thoroughly; to make very black. Boyle.
2. Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame. [R.] To denigrate the memory of Voltaire. Morley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
