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

noun

a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions

See also: calumny calumniation obloquy traducement

noun

an abusive attack on a person's character or good name

See also: aspersion calumny slander denigration