defaming

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In her first lawsuit, Carroll accused Trump of defaming her when he insulted her and denied raping her in a department-store dressing room in the 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Chaves has had strained ties with local media, whom he accuses of defaming him.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

At the time, he denied the allegations and accused one woman of defaming him, and the other woman of illegally taking his cellphone after consenting to being recorded.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

Mr Ojwang was arrested after Kenya's deputy police chief Eliud Lagat filed a complaint, accusing the blogger of defaming him on social media.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2025

The broken bit of mirror danced away from him; he picked it up and turned it over in his fingers, thinking, thinking of Dumbledore and the lies with which Rita Skeeter was defaming him....

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling