antidefamation
English
editEtymology
editFrom anti- + defamation.
Adjective
editantidefamation (not comparable)
- Opposing the defamation of a particular group. Chiefly in direct or oblique reference to the Anti-Defamation League.
- 1999 March 12, Mabel Orona, “Bulls, Dogs, and Cox”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- Perhaps, in future, you should regard any reference to nonhumans in his writing as a red light and alert the appropriate antidefamation societies.
- 2008 June 17, Claudia Dreifus, “Professor Finds the Art in Both Numbers and Letters”, in New York Times[2]:
- You almost needed an antidefamation league for mathematicians.
Translations
editopposing defamation
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