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Example sentences for "defamation"

Lexicographically close words:
defacement; defacing; defalcation; defalcations; defalt; defamatory; defame; defamed; defamer; defamers
  1. The defamation and rancour with which the press on both sides flooded the land obscured the point at issue.

  2. The respect due to a man is closely connected with his station, and in the case of defamation the injury suffered by the loss of honour or reputation is naturally proportionate to the esteem in which the offended party is held.

  3. She had scarcely arrived in England when some of the parties, including a Mr. Dwyer, a player, quarrelled; and actions for defamation were brought forward among them.

  4. Footnote 34: The speeches of counsel on that trial being published in the newspapers, she requested my advice as to bringing an action for defamation against some of the parties.

  5. I have ever felt a great abhorrence of the system of defamation on hearsay.

  6. The present lax, unrestrained, and vicious exuberance of the periodical press, stamps the United Kingdom as the very focus of libel and defamation in all their ramifications.

  7. The church court punished adultery and defamation for improper sexual conduct.

  8. The latter supplements bad words punished by the local courts and defamation punished by the church courts.

  9. Accusations of defamation were frequent; this offense could not be taken to the King's court, but it had been recognized as an offense in the Anglo-Saxon laws.

  10. For instance, defamation of a lord's grain would cause other purchasers to forbear buying it.

  11. Adultery was subject to church court sanctions as was defamation for improper sexual conduct.

  12. The nature of the remedy is really an action for the defamation of the plaintiff's reputation as an author.

  13. The offence if anything would be defamation of the author.

  14. Defamation is an evil: but death is generally and perhaps always a greater; and to prevent enquiry is among the worst of evils.

  15. In 1671 one Thomas Lambertsen and wife sued John Lowe for defamation of character.

  16. The penalty in slander cases was very light, as appears by a verdict rendered in an action for defamation in 1699.

  17. Mr. Gilbert could not, and shortly Mr. Perkins brought two complaints of defamation of character.

  18. Erasmus James, her husband, promptly brought suit for slander, and at the next Court another suit for defamation by which he received 50s.

  19. Their husbands at once brought suit for defamation of character and the verdict in each case was, that the defendant should make public acknowledgment within fourteen days in the meetinghouses at Salem, Ipswich and Gloucester.

  20. The desire to protect himself against the defamation of his enemies led him at this time to compose that account of his own life, which is probably the only one of his writings that continues to be generally read.

  21. Protection against loss of character might further be divided into protection against defamation by individuals--foremen or employers--and protection against defamation by combinations of employers.

  22. The penalties of such defamation by combination in the Auer Motion are directed against employers and employers only, although in point of fact there are not infrequent cases of combinations among workmen for the defamation of employers.

  23. The guarantee of testimonials has long been afforded--and has met with no opposition--as a means of protection against defamation by individual employers.

  24. Newman remarks, those who leave the Catholic Church, and yet retain some moral probity and gentlemanly honor, do not furnish Protestants with the evidence they want in order to sustain their defamation of the Catholic priesthood.

  25. G72 "Published in cooperation with the Anti-defamation League of B'nai B'rith.

  26. Men in public life, in the professions, religious and others similarly placed, suffer from defamation far more than those in the ordinary walks of life; and naturally those who injure them are guilty of more grievous wrong.

  27. My dear, he'll have to bring an action for defamation of character, or whatever they call it.

  28. Pause] I mean it; if you put a word into my mouth, I'll sue you for defamation of character.

  29. Well for sure, I can't prove defamation of character, as you say.

  30. Fille, "but is it defamation of character?

  31. Give me a judgment for defamation of character.

  32. Defamation of character"--could there possibly be a better opening for what he had promised Judge Carcasson he would say!

  33. But he suffered exquisitely, maddened by the defamation imposed upon his nick-name of a thief by this brazen impostor.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "defamation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abuse; affront; aspersion; backbiting; calumny; defamation; depreciation; detraction; discredit; dishonor; disparagement; insult; libel; muckraking; scandal; shame; slander; smear; sycophancy; tale; vilification