malicious statement
Example Sentences
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The same kind of malicious statement posted online can spread farther and last forever.
From Time Magazine Archive
"That is certainly false—an untrue and malicious statement," said Carson.
From The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
It has not been proved otherwise to me, for all that I have peered over his shoulder and read his malicious statement to the contrary.
From The Turtles of Tasman by Jack London
If spoken, the malicious statement is called slander; if written or printed, it is called libel.
From Studies in Civics by J. T. (James Thompson) McCleary
The jailer stoutly denied the accusation, and charged the prisoner in his turn with making a malicious statement to bring him into discredit.
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth
