How To Use Defamatory In A Sentence
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As the court pointed out in Pitba, some statements are automatically assumed to be defamatory.
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He said yesterday that the allegations made against him had been'wholly false and seriously defamatory'.
Times, Sunday Times
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The reader said that the report was defamatory.
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We have come in for our share of criticism, some of it defamatory, but we have never wavered from this message.
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Such claims are untrue and grossly defamatory.
The Sun
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Legal malice is implied from the mere publication of a defamatory communication.
Archive 2009-10-01
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Put a few good men into corporations, and they become dull, soulless, humourless drudges given to tossing the word ‘defamatory’ around for no good reason.
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Thus an assertion which does not suggest discreditable conduct by the plaintiff may still be defamatory if it imputes to him or her a condition calculated to diminish the respect and confidence in which the plaintiff is held.
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The claimant cannot select apparently libellous statements if the passage taken as a whole is not defamatory.
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Such an inference could not properly be drawn until the defendant had had a reasonable time to act to remove the defamatory comments.
Times, Sunday Times
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One important implication is that the era when the media in one country may publish defamatory allegations about individuals in another country may gradually be over.
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The defence of qualified privilege had to be considered with reference to the particular publication complained of as defamatory.
Times, Sunday Times
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Can teachers sue administrators for defamatory statements made in letters of recommendation or on evaluation forms?
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I suspect that she, or her proctor, used this phrasing because it was just vague enough to make its defamatory value uncertain, even under the emerging rules in the London consistory.
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Defined literally, a roorback is a “defamatory falsehood published for political effect,” but I wanted the grand old word to stand for all the defamations and falsehoods published and proffered in our irreverent media age.
AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE
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Meanwhile, the right-wing demonstrates its abhorrence of defamatory character assassination and smear jobs here.
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Something defamatory is libellous only if it's untrue.
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The newspaper had used the term murderer, and other terms McBride considered defamatory, in a series of columns questioning his appointment to the police chief post.
Guardian Online
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Put a few good men into corporations, and they become dull, soulless, humourless drudges given to tossing the word ‘defamatory’ around for no good reason.
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However, fabricating malicious falsehoods and then actively circulating them not only belies any profession of Christianity but is defamatory and libelous.
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Be careful not to make any defamatory comments or you could end up facing legal action.
Times, Sunday Times
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It deserved to be kindly noticed, and not until after the "Fourierite" doctrines were preached and accepted did there appear anything in the journals of a defamatory character relating to it.
Brook Farm
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Since the word "defamatory" is strong language, I wanted to respond in print in the same way I have responded to him in person each time we have discussed this issue in interviews that were, from my point of view, a pleasure and a privilege to conduct.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post
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ANDERSON: Former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright both have written letters to Robert Iger, the head of Disney, ABC's parent company, to complain about what they call contrived scenes which bear no relationship to actual events, and scenes that are false and defamatory.
CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2006
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You agree not to post or transmit to or from this Site any unlawful, threatening, libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, or other material that would violate any law.
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With mounds of defamatory material, of claims and counterclaims, will anyone pay attention?
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We completely refute these allegations, which are both false and defamatory.
Times, Sunday Times
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No defamation occurs until the defamatory matter is communicated to a third party.
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However, having regard to the trial judge's reasons as a whole, and considering both the content of some of S's speeches already mentioned, and the broad latitude allowed by the defence of fair comment, the defamatory imputation that while S would not engage in violence herself she would condone violence by others, is an opinion that could honestly have been expressed on the proved facts by a person prejudiced, exaggerated or obstinate in his views.
Daimnation!: Fair Comment
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The defence of qualified privilege had to be considered with reference to the particular publication complained of as defamatory.
Times, Sunday Times
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We completely refute these allegations, which are both false and defamatory.
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In a May 20 letter, lawyers representing Timoney and Lee asked that McEachern retract his statements - which they called defamatory - promise to refrain from similar statements in future and pay $1,000 to cover their legal costs.
Dose.ca Music briefs
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We completely refute these allegations, which are both false and defamatory.
Times, Sunday Times
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The proceedings are being used to make defamatory remarks about people.
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We will remove any content that may put us in legal jeopardy, such as potentially libellous or defamatory postings.
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He went so far as to deploy the legally fraught term defamatory, which is the musteline way of subtly raising the specter of a legal threat.
Media Blog
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Solicitors acting on behalf of a number of officers have written to cinemas and halls pointing out that they may be liable to action should the film be found to be defamatory.
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In recent years M.P.s have made use of this privilege to make defamatory allegations.
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We completely refute these allegations, which are both false and defamatory.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some Catholic leaders have defended the Pope against what they describe as defamatory attacks by the media.
BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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Can teachers sue administrators for defamatory statements made in letters of recommendation or on evaluation forms?
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We call on you to immediately withdraw your cruel and defamatory statements made against our client.
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We completely refute these allegations, which are both false and defamatory.
Times, Sunday Times
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The company claimed that Google was liable as a publisher of defamatory comments.
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Why is it not defamatory and why could not the appellant have recovered, in New South Wales, aggravated damages by reason of the psychiatric harm that she said she suffered?
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Posting of slanderous, libelous, abusive or defamatory material is totally prohibited.
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We do not tolerate abusive, malicious, libelous, defamatory or personal attacks.
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It is necessary to remember that a plea of justification may be pitched at one of three levels of gravity in relation to a defamatory sting.
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Having regard to that uncontroverted evidence of Mr Bolt's state of mind it is clear that he did not care whether the article conveyed the defamatory imputation or not.
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He claimed that the letters from the defendants were defamatory, malicious and injurious as they were calculated to damage the name, political standing and reputation.
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A defamatory statement is libel if it is in permanent form such as writing or pictures.
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Solicitors acting for their clients in contentious business of any kind frequently have to write letters which are or may be defamatory of their clients' adversaries.
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More fundamentally, it may offend the basic principle that the only point of such a plea is to justify a defamatory meaning.
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However, fabricating malicious falsehoods and then actively circulating them not only belies any profession of Christianity but is defamatory and libelous.
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To repeat a defamatory statement was precisely the same as if one had said it in the first place.
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Google fined for 'paedophile' libel against priest GOOGLE has been fined $US8500 ($9169) in Brazil after an anonymous internet user posted defamatory messages on one of its sites against a priest, calling him a "paedophile".
AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
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The unlawful publication of defamatory matter is an actionable wrong.
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Something defamatory is libellous only if it's untrue.
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We will remove any content that may put us in legal jeopardy, such as potentially libellous or defamatory postings.
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The defendant cannot engage in recrimination or trade defamatory comments with the claimant.
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Offensive language, such as profanities and expletives; sexually explicit or pornographic material; hate speech; defamatory, abusive, threatening or harassing speech; or racial, religious or personal attacks of any kind
Home | The New York Observer
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Posting of slanderous, libelous, abusive or defamatory material is totally prohibited.
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A statement that a police officer is under is investigation is no doubt defamatory, but the sting in the libel is not as sharp as the statement that he has by his conduct brought suspicion on himself.
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To say she over-emoted is defamatory understatement.
Actress, Seductress
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Posting of slanderous, libelous, abusive or defamatory material is totally prohibited.
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Can teachers sue administrators for defamatory statements made in letters of recommendation or on evaluation forms?
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The defamation charge was first laid against Mu Sochua after she sued Hun Sen for what she called defamatory comments delivered publicly in April 2009.
KI Media
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As a plea for multispecies diversity, "Ice Age" has a magnanimous heart, but there may be those who find its portrait of the clueless, doomed dodo birds defamatory and prehistorically incorrect.
THREE MAMMALS AND A BABY
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Its property or its business may be injured by defamatory statements whether written or oral.
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If a statement might be defamatory or invasive of privacy or infringing on the publicity of a live person, I don't think that statement should be used regarding a dead celebrity.
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He said Wednesday he would file a complaint with Student Judicial Services and consult a lawyer about what he termed defamatory statements. thanks Fadi
Friday, March 31, 2006
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The claimant cannot select apparently libellous statements if the passage taken as a whole is not defamatory.
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We will remove any content that may put us in legal jeopardy, such as potentially libellous or defamatory postings.
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A defamatory statement is one which impugns another person's reputation or adversely affects his or her standing in the community.
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Again there is some part of me that wonders whether I am so thoroughly interpellated into the discourse of the confessional that telling of these incidents feels like the only recourse amidst a very real experience of disempowerment: through this lens my indiscretions are brave rather than foolish, I am speaking a truth rather than indulging in potentially defamatory gossip.
Dear Intertubes
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If false or defamatory information is affecting their chances laws exist to help them suppress it, online and off.
Times, Sunday Times
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The man who made a best seller out of a defamatory rant now wants to make a best seller out of repentance.
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Secondly, irritating, defamatory and derogatory comments left at this site by visitors will be deleted.
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It is highly defamatory to suggest that it does.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was an issue as to whether the article was defamatory of the plaintiff at all.
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There is a fine line sometimes between a joke, satire, ridicule and genuine defamatory ridicule.
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While it's not for a journalist to nitpick a minister's theological credentials, that implication of belated seismic revenge on Haitian children seems defamatory of God.
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So likening you to one of them - as opposed to a "barrister" - could presumably be argued to be incapable of carrying a defamatory meaning.
My First 'Hate' Email: A 'Chiropractic Doctor' Writes
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He claims the remarks were highly defamatory.
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One more example: there is nothing wrong with being Jewish, but when Jew is used as a perjorative for being cheap or greedy or deicidal, then it becomes defamatory.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Human Rights Watch Update
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To say that she over-emoted is a defamatory understatement.
Actress, Seductress
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DE and Suzuki Motor remained unresolved on Friday as a deadline set by the Japanese automaker for its partner to retract what it called a defamatory accusation passed without the desired response.
Reuters: Press Release