defaming
Example Sentences
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A federal jury in Manhattan in 2023 found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll and ordered him to pay $5 million in damages.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026
Chaves has had strained ties with local media, whom he accuses of defaming him.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit in which Drake had accused the world’s biggest record company of defaming him with the release and promotion of Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy-winning diss track “Not Like Us.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025
Thailand's lese majeste law forbids anyone from defaming or threatening the royal family.
From BBC • Aug. 22, 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
