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: --
The second group are only privileged if the newspaper is ready to publish an explanation or a contradiction by somebody who has been defamed.
Accordingly, we cannot accept being defamed in this way.
A plaintiff who thinks he has been defamed has an historic and traditional right to have his character vindicated by a jury of twelve persons.
Persons who had rendered invaluable service were defamed as dishonest intriguers.
The fact of being defamed was undoubtedly the worst experience of my life, although some say that birth is pretty traumatic.
An individual was defamed, although the allegations could have been looked at thoroughly.
There may be cases where somebody who is very poor is grossly defamed by a newspaper or by somebody else and suffers great damage.
In other words, about people who are perhaps defamed by things which are published and which have previously been stored electronically.
