Sentence examples for defamation from inspiring English sources
"defamation" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to damaging or false information that someone publishes (written or verbal) about another person, damaging their reputation. For example: The politician filed a lawsuit for defamation after the newspaper published false allegations about her.
noun
The act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another.
The Times's report quotes media lawyer Caroline Kean, as saying that the use of the DPA is undermining increased protections that publishers won last year through reform of the UK's defamation law.
Brown has hired the defamation lawyer Mark O'Brien and is demanding a public apology, the ABC reported.
On Thursday the European court of human rights rejected the complaint by Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, who had filed a defamation suit against Moscow's Novaya Gazeta newspaper.
But Vilhjálmsdóttir opted to press defamation charges and her lawyers have announced they will seek the "maximum punishment", which is one year in prison for each offence.
One Paris councilman said that it would "not serve any purpose to pursue a defamation case against a veritable bloopers factory" such as Fox, and the "no-go zone" insult was not the first and would not be the last.
The award-winning architect filed a lawsuit in Manhattan supreme court last week, accusing the highbrow magazine and its architecture critic, Martin Filler, of defamation.
In spite of animosity between Iran and Israel, Iranians are the least antisemitic people in the Middle East, according to the latest poll by the US-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
The argument began in 1999, the year of the death of Leonard Zakim, the leader of the local Jews' Anti-Defamation League.
Desoufflage is therefore being felt through the loss in the value of dollar-denominated assets and the knock-on effects of this.Georges Hébert Westmount, CanadaPolitical theory* SIR – The Anarchist Anti-Defamation League has informed me of The Economist's latest vile slur, absurdity, and calumny against anarchy.
Meanwhile another reform hangs in the balance.The Defamation Bill, supported by all the main parties, was intended to diminish London's deserved reputation as the world's libel capital.
Even the group that campaigns against antisemitism, the Anti-Defamation League, has gone on the record saying they are happy that Galliano has learned his lesson and they "believe that individuals can change as long as they demonstrate true contrition".
