noun
definition
The act of injuring another person's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another.
Examples of defamation in a Sentence
I have replied that reporting does not constitute defamation.
Dr. Godfrey then took action claiming defamation and seeking damages.
People found guilty of defamation were usually asked to perform a penance.
Developing a tort of group defamation which applied to races and religions would be a very sweeping extension of present English law.
Every conversation becomes a forum for slandering the person you hate or defamation and even for lies.
A few corporations choose to grease the squeaky wheel to avoid product defamation by imposing management practices on us, their suppliers.
Cases involving defamation of the Polish president have been brought before, but none ended in a conviction.
Worse still, he was arrested and charged with criminal defamation.
Our defamation laws are tricky and, uh, a little unfair but you ca n't defame the dead.
Evidently you hold the laws of defamation and the wisdom of libel juries in the utmost contempt.
Indeed, defending defamation there is altogether a very much tougher and more expensive business than in the UK.
A limited company can sue only insofar as the alleged defamation relates in some way to its trading activities.
In Singapore, their fairly strict defamation laws have been extended to cover digital defamation.
This was the first Internet defamation case involving individuals.
Detailed discussion of the problems involved in developing a tort of group defamation is outside the scope of this article.
Other areas of litigation, where ADR might be suitable, were suggested, including contested probate, libel and defamation.
This end apparently justifies any means, including the defamation of the dead in their battle with the truth.
The group also has substantial experience in defamation, entertainment, price adjustment, securitization, white collar and qui tam litigation.
They have in a similar manner been relieved of their jurisdiction in testamentary matters, and in matters of defamation and of brawling in churches; and the only jurisdiction which they continue to exercise over the general laity is with regard to their use of the churches and churchyards.
Cruise got wind of it and filed a defamation suit against Sapir.
Cavallotti then began against him a pitiless campaign of defamation.
This change in sympathy, again, has gained a hearing from modern historians, who tend more and more to discredit the wholesale defamation of the dissolution period.
Danby therefore ordered a return from every diocese of the numbers of dissenters, both Romanist and Protestant, in order by a proof of their insignificance to remove the royal scruples.3 In December 1676 he issued a proclamation for the suppression of coffee-houses because of the "defamation of His Majesty's Government" which took place in them, but this was soon withdrawn.