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
Such was the unsympathetic, alliterative heading of the malicious statement which appeared in an opposition organ.
From Unleavened Bread by Grant, Robert
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 Ainsworth, William Harrison
"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 Carleton, William
If spoken, the malicious statement is called slander; if written or printed, it is called libel.
From Studies in Civics by McCleary, J. T. (James Thompson)
