0 the action of damaging the reputation of a person or group by saying or writing bad things about them that are not true:
1 the act of harming someone's reputation by saying or writing bad things about them:
Defamation law treats websites and their bulletin boards in the same way as a newspaper, holding a publisher liable for their content.
His lawyers filed four civil defamation cases against the company.
Three journalists were charged with criminal defamation.
He separated those out and listed them in detail, which enabled me to find with ease the defamation actions.
The laws of a country concerning defamation played a crucial role in the types of cases which would be brought.
This is particularly evident in the defamation litigation heard by the university courts.
Two previous writers on defamation have also done this.
Degradation and defamation were reserved for those unable to pay the proper compensation, who were consequently expelled from normative society.
