Words similar to defamation

Example sentences for: defamation

How can you use “defamation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The rules forbid defamation of the government, transmission of state secrets, and promotion of Tibetan and Taiwanese independence.
According to the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas, to harm someone this way is a mortal sin--even if the allegations are true--since "defamation is not a distortion of the truth but the destruction of a reputation."
But I am told that there is a different world out there that represents some present and powerful political reality: It is a world in which it is wrong to think about defamation, wrong to think about trade secrets, wrong to think about blackmail.
It quoted an official of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith as saying that the fact that the fate of the administration hung on the word of a 24-year-old Jewish woman had already produced accusations of a "Jewish conspiracy" against the American people on Internet sites operated by radical right-wing and white supremacist organizations.
The advisers called the defamation case an attempt to silence those who challenge the white establishment and "to punish three men who have clearly given their lives and their careers to help people who could not help themselves."