0 past simple and past participle of defame
1 to damage the reputation of a person or group by saying or writing bad things about them that are not true:
Individuals can be grossly misjudged and defamed by such material.
Supposing it should happen that a man has been defamed, has brought an action, and has got damages for it.
Then the person defamed will get his remedy.
I cannot think of any plaintiff believing that he has been defamed who has sought merely an injunction.
It is right that it should be retained to make a decision where a man says that he has been defamed.
It could not go on so long as it contained the defamatory matter of which the person defamed complained.
Clearly, a person who is defamed should have a right to justice.
In other words, about people who are perhaps defamed by things which are published and which have previously been stored electronically.
