7 example sentences using defamation.
Defamation used in a sentence
Defamation in a sentence as a noun
I wouldn't name and shame here on HN, because when you file a lawsuit they'll counterclaim for defamation.
> [...] threatening to sue The Oatmeal for $20,000 for defamation [...]This is incorrect.
That someone actually used that e-mail should not result in public defamation and linking their business name with spam.
I don't have near enough evidence to make a final judgment one way or another but this certainly smells more like defamation than whistle-blowing.
He should be able to get defamation, at least with good enough odds to get a settlement that'll cover him till he gets his next job, given what PlayHaven's management said about the termination and about him.
How a more punitive defamation regime in the UK was won on the back not of politicians trying to protect their expenses or some such, but the hacking of a dead teenager's voicemail and various other dirty tricks of the gutter press.
* The Singaporean government and senior government officials have frequently brought charges of "scandalizing the court," criminal and civil defamation, and sedition to silence and even bankrupt its critics.
Defamation definitions
a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
See also: calumny calumniation obloquy traducement
an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
See also: aspersion calumny slander denigration