alicui infamiam movere; aliquem infamare (to bring anybody into ill repute): aliquem variis rumoribus differre; aliquem diffamare (to spread reports against anybody diffamare, post-Augustan, Tac.): calumniari (to accuse falsely, and from base motives): criminari (to blacken, and render suspected by false accusations); anybody to anybody, aliquem apud aliquem: de fama or existimatione alicujus detrahere (to detract, from anybody’s good name): maledicere alicui (to speak ill of anybody): probrum inferre (e.g., castis, Cic.): behind the back, de aliquo absente detrahendi causa maledice contumelioseque dicere (Cic., Off., 1, 37, 134); alicui absenti male loqui (Terentianus, Phorm., 2, 3, 25): I am defamed, detrahitur de mea fama.