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defamation

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FromOld Frenchdiffamacion (Frenchdiffamation), fromLatindiffāmātiō. Bysurface analysis,defame +‎-ation.

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defamation (countable anduncountable,pluraldefamations)

  1. The act of injuring another person'sreputation by anyslanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another.
    She sued his ex-boyfriend fordefamation and is seeking $14,000.
    • 2005, “Journalists Imprisoned in 2004”, in Bill Sweeney, editor,Attacks on the Press in 2004[1],→ISBN,→ISSN,→OCLC,page251, column 2:
      In a closed trial on December 24, 2004, the People’s Court of Jinshui District in the city of Zhengzhou, Henan Province, convicted Zhang Ruquan, along with his associate Zhang Zhengyao, in a public prosecution on charges ofdefamation that “seriously undermined social order or the state interest.” The two were sentenced to three years in prison for defaming former Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
    • 2023 April 21, John Poulos, “Dominion’s C.E.O.: Why We Settled the Lawsuit Against Fox News”, inThe New York Times[2],→ISSN, archived fromthe original on28 April 2023:
      An hour later, when the Fox board approved the wire payment for $787.5 million — one of the largest knowndefamation settlements in history — Fox acknowledged what we needed it to acknowledge: spreading false claims comes with a huge price tag.
    • 2025 September 19, Peter Charalambous, “Judge tosses Trump's $15B defamation suit against New York Times, Penguin Random House”, inABC News[3], archived fromthe original on20 September 2025:
      Merryday, who was appointed by President Geroge[sic] H. W. Bush, said the complaint contains eighty pages of repetitive claims and praise for President Trump, but fails to establish the two counts ofdefamation alleged.

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act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication
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