malicious defamation
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“Despite the falsity of the Defendants’ accusations, Defendants’ malicious defamation and unlawful collusion has, by design, destroyed Niemann’s remarkable career in its prime and ruined his life,” according to the lawsuit.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
“Simon & Schuster’s publication of such malicious defamation about Professor Halper has and will continue to damage …. his reputation in this country and abroad,” his attorneys wrote to the publisher in March 2020.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 16, 2021
This however, is not a sufficient nor fining rebuke for the crime of malicious defamation upon the name of the dead.
From Time Magazine Archive
Slander, slan′dėr, n. a false or malicious report: malicious defamation by words spoken: calumny.—v.t. to defame: to calumniate.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Libel has been defined above as "malicious defamation," etc.
From The Style Book of The Detroit News by News, The Detroit
