defaming
Example Sentences
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Chaves has had strained ties with local media, whom he accuses of defaming him.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
But the parade of horribles recounted by Mr. Shapiro are at once comic and terrifying: deans harassing speakers, law students defaming anyone holding divergent views, faculty obsessed with idiotic academic theories.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
Thailand's lese majeste law forbids anyone from defaming or threatening the royal family.
From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025
A jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll in 2023, ordering him to pay $5 million in damages.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025
Adams read in the newspapers that Jefferson had compiled “a Magazine of slips of newspapers, and pamphlets, vilifying, calumniating and defaming you.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
