To defile/ tarnish reputation/ throw (sling) mud at

Defect. Caused a defect to occur. Or: statue. Found a defect in it (the missile means to throw or drop. The dophi means a shameful defect or defect).

("You shall sit among your brothers, you shall speak to your mother's son, you shall give me my word" - Tehillim 52:11, and so on: "Reader, and their name is among the sages Zadok and Bethusain, and they are the ones who began to impose my word on the Kabbalah, and to interpret the scriptures according to my word, which would be seen by every man" - Harambam/ Parush Le Maschet Avot, Chapter 1, 346, and so on: "The generality of the matter: because they were extremes In the calculated measure, and the whole purpose of their intention was nothing but to cast a curse on the man and to bring a slander upon him" - We have been many in my life in the wilderness, O Lord, and so: "You have sworn by the faithful, / If you despise her, you will despise her, and if you give her a slander of my mouth" - H.N. Bialik / Widows, and so: "And I myself have become a slander to me that will be a stumbling block... and it is a pity for me to cast a curse on her "My face is pure and my beauty is unsurpassed" - Y. Burla/ Silvers, 88)

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