Lampoon vs Defame - What's the difference?
lampoon | defame | Synonyms |
To harm or diminish the reputation of.
To render infamous; to bring into disrepute.
* Dryden
To publish a libel about.
(archaic) To charge; to accuse.
* Rebecca is defamed of sorcery practised on the person of a noble knight.
As verbs the difference between lampoon and defame
is that lampoon is to satirize or poke fun at while defame is to harm or diminish the reputation of.As a noun lampoon
is a written attack ridiculing a person, group, or institution.defame
English
Verb
(defam)- to defame somebody
- My guilt thy growing virtues did defame ; / My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name.
