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verb
To create suspicion around (a person) through the spreading of rumors, manufacture of evidence and disinformation, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: snitch-jacket
History
Etymology tree English bad Old French jaque Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Middle French jacquetbor. English jacket English bad-jacket From bad + jacket; see jacket (“(slang) a police record”).
