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Damage to someone's reputation

injury

noun

harm done to your reputation, career, or feelings by someone or something

discredit

noun

harm that is done to someone’s reputation

smear

noun

an attempt to damage someone’s reputation by telling lies about them

slander

noun

something bad that you say about someone that is not true and may damage their reputation

ignominy

noun

a situation where you feel embarrassed and lose other people’s respect

smear campaign

noun

a series of attempts to damage someone’s reputation by telling lies about them

character assassination

noun

the deliberate and unfair destruction of someone’s reputation

under a cloud

with your reputation damaged because you may have done something wrong

a stain on someone’s character/reputation etc

something bad that someone has done that spoils their reputation

loss of face

the state of no longer being respected by people because of something that you have done

caxirola

a percussion instrument used by football fans which makes a rattling sound when shaken

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pierce the corporate veil

… the decision to treat the rights and duties of a company as being the same as the rights and duties of its shareholders

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