0 to damage the reputation of a person or group by saying or writing bad things about them that are not true: --
1 to damage someone’s or something’s reputation by saying or writing bad things that are not true: --
He was behind the propaganda campaign to defame his political opponent.
2 to harm someone's reputation by saying or writing bad things about them: --
It is possible to defame a company as companies are considered to have a legal 'personality'.
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.
Clearly, a person who is defamed should have a right to justice.
It could not go on so long as it contained the defamatory matter of which the person defamed complained.
It is right that it should be retained to make a decision where a man says that he has been defamed.
