How to Use defamation in a Sentence

defamation

noun

• The article was full of lies and defamations.
• That could open the door to defamation claims, lawyers aid.
  — Meredith Mandell, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2017
• Unsworth sued Musk for defamation but lost the case in 2019.
  — Makena Kelly, The Verge, 2 Oct. 2023
• The firm has filed a defamation suit against the researcher in Hong Kong.
  — Bloomberg.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• Unsworth sued him for defamation, but Musk won the case.
  — Courtney Vinopal, Quartz, 14 Apr. 2022
• Bauer had sued Hill for defamation and in the process obtained the video.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• In the end, both Depp and Heard were found liable for defamation.
  — Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 7 June 2022
• In this movie, Mike and Marcus are smacked in the face with a defamation case.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2024
• Keisel and his wife filed suit against Westbrook and the Jazz for defamation.
  — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 18 June 2021
• His claims are why Carroll brought the defamation case.
  — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 4 May 2023
• The suit accuses the Met and Gelb of defamation and breach of contract.
  — Jennifer Peltz, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• Trump appears to be struggling to line up a bond in the defamation case as well.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 29 Feb. 2024
• None of the three law firms that have worked for Tesla on the defamation case would comment.
  — Russ Mitchell Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2020
• Fox News had attempted to get the defamation case thrown out of court.
  — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• But that's not defamation -- that's a guilty conscience.
  — Hannah Karp, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2018
• The company has filed defamation lawsuits over some of the claims that have been made.
  — Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Dec. 2021
• So who is Randeep Hothi, anyway, and what was the defamation suit about?
  — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
• Sobol has lost track of how many times Prigozhin has sued her and her colleagues for defamation.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
• Unsworth sued for defamation and lost) and politicians.
  — Richard J. Chang, Forbes, 25 June 2022
• Last year, a judge dismissed a Trump defamation suit against CNN.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
• For several months, the defamation suit wound its way through a state court in New York.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2021
• David Bernstein, the bartender, then filed a defamation suit against Lebeouf.
  — Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• Depp sued Heard for defamation over a 2018 op-ed for the Washington Post.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 20 Dec. 2022
• Proving a defamation case in the United States is a tall order.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2019
• The defamation suit was settled in 2019 for an undisclosed amount.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Nov. 2024
• As a result of those comments, King sued Calvert for defamation.
  — al, 20 Dec. 2022
• The lyrics led Nelson to file a $11 million defamation lawsuit against her son.
  — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
• Daniels also tried to sue Trump in 2018 for defamation, but the lawsuit was dismissed.
  — Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 7 May 2024
• The amount is four times higher than the previous Australian record for a defamation case.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2017
• Drake also hinted at suing UMG for defamation for allowing Lamar to call him a pedophile on the track rather than refusing to release the song.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024