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Example sentences for: defamation

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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."
And yes, there is a transcript of the Anti-Defamation League hosted "Second Centennial Meeting of the Learned Elders of Zion."
Apparently, there is no Kurdish Anti-Defamation League.
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.
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."