Words similar to defamation

Example sentences for: defamation

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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.
But if the argument is that commercialization poses the same dreaded threat to the Net as defamation, then I think that he is wrong, given that the two could live side by side in the manner just described.
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."
The band is threatening to sue the AFA for libel and defamation.