How to Use defame in a Sentence

defame

verb

• He says he was defamed by reports that falsely identified him as a former gangster.
• The jury also found that Depp defamed Heard in the course of fighting back against her charges.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 25 Aug. 2023
• Depp, 59, however, was found to have defamed her on one of three claims.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 9 May 2023
• The Republicans defame the dead in service of a scoundrel.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 18 Nov. 2021
• While both parties were found to have defamed the other, Depp walked away the victor in the court of public opinion.
  — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2023
• The news also came the same week that Elon Musk takes the stand in a trial where he’s accused of defaming a British diver last year.
  — Wired, 6 Dec. 2019
• Names have been removed from the stories, so as not to defame anyone, but each entry is tagged with the author's school.
  — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 6 Mar. 2021
• The lawsuit points to 10 different instances where Relli was defamed in the press.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 12 Sep. 2023
• The lawsuit also says Smith defamed Artharee by stating he had been fired from his job.
  — oregonlive.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Heard's lawyers say the article is accurate and does not defame him.
  — CBS News, 20 Apr. 2022
• Heard's lawyers say the article is accurate and doesn't defame him.
  — CBS News, 21 Apr. 2022
• The jurors found that Heard defamed her ex-husband in her 2018 Washington Post op-ed that didn't mention him by name.
  — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 12 May 2023
• Fox denies defaming anyone and claims that the lawsuit is an assault on the First Amendment.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• Allen’s countersuits claim that one of the women defamed him and that the other illegally took his cell phone.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 13 July 2023
• Some have even called for monarchy reform, an act unthinkable just months ago in a country where those who defame the king can be sentenced to prison.
  — Fortune, 20 Aug. 2020
• However, the jury also found that Depp defamed Heard, through his attorney, in the course of fighting back against her charges.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
• To prove defamation, a plaintiff must prove who exactly defamed them.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
• Heard has countersued, claiming Depp directed his lawyers to defame her in the legal process.
  — CBS News, 19 Apr. 2022
• When the case went to trial, the jury found Heard liable for defamation, and found that one statement by Depp's former attorney defamed Heard.
  — Women's Health Editors, Women's Health, 17 Aug. 2023
• Bauer alleged he was defamed by Deadspin in a 2021 story that said the San Diego woman suffered a skull fracture as a result of her encounter with Bauer.
  — Christian Red, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• Strict lese majeste laws prohibit insulting or defaming the monarchy and carry a prison term of up to 15 years for each count.
  — Helen Regan and Angie Puranasamriddhi, CNN, 30 Oct. 2019
• On June 1, a seven-person jury reached a verdict, deciding that Depp proved ex-wife Heard defamed him.
  — Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 4 May 2023
• Groups of young men in threes and fours walked up and down Eighth Avenue aimlessly, less looking for the train, or a car home, than hanging around and waiting for a fresh chance to defame the slight point guard from Atlanta.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 2 June 2021
• The jury also found that Corfman did not defame Moore in making the allegations.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 3 Feb. 2022
• Snyder has suggested in legal filings that one of those shareholders, Dwight Schar, may be involved in a scheme to defame him.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2020
• The facts of the case -- that Trump assaulted and defamed Carroll -- were established following a jury trial last year.
  — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2024
• Epps has filed a lawsuit against Fox News alleging that the outlet, and Carlson in particular, defamed him.
  — Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
• More news to know now Rudy Giuliani defamed Georgia election workers, a federal judge ruled.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• The lawsuit's business disparagement claim marks the first time that Musk has sued a group monitoring hate speech on X for defaming the platform.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2023
• Giuffre claimed that Maxwell, daughter of the late British publisher Robert Maxwell, defamed her by publicly calling her a liar.
  — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024