as in slander
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Noun
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Andy Reid is not happy about the Taylor Swift slander.—
Rania Aniftos,
Billboard,
26 Feb. 2025 -
Melissa Gilbert will not stand for any Little House on the Prairie slander.—
Julia Moore,
People.com,
31 Jan. 2025
Noun
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That brings us to the other calumnies Vance and Trump have directed at the Haitians in Springfield.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Sep. 2024
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Sifton and Stern conclude their book with a look at how even after the Nazis’ defeat, the Bonhoeffer and Dohnanyi families faced public and official calumny for being relatives of traitors.—
Peter Hoffmann,
Foreign Affairs,
18 June 2014
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Newsmax was motivated to raise money through an IPO partly due to the defamation lawsuits against the channel stemming from the 2020 election.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
1 Apr. 2025
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Last year, Newsmax settled a defamation lawsuit filed by voting company Smartmatic, which the regulatory filing says included a cash payment of $40 million over time.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2025
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On New Year’s Eve, Baldoni and nine other plaintiffs, including crisis publicist Melissa Nathan and Abel sued the New York Times for $250 million for libel.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
21 Mar. 2025
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Lively also advances procedural arguments to dismiss the defamation claims, including that Baldoni brought his lawsuit past the one year window to sue for libel.—
Winston Cho,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Mar. 2025
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The trial became a staging ground for an effort that would permeate his presidential campaign and first weeks in office: vilification of judges who cross Mr. Trump.—
Graham Kates,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2025
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In his first five episodes, Newsom has mostly capitulated to right-wing guests, agreeing with them on issues such as trans women competing in sports and the vilification of white men.—
David W. Brown,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2025
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Any aspersions for the prevalence of fake Louis Vuitton should be cast on Canal Street in New York, not in France.—
Marcus Thompson II,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
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Even as China’s coercive capabilities and threatening behavior have rightly focused U.S. attention on the risks to American interests, the absence of clear metrics for success leaves the door open for partisan aspersions of the Biden administration’s approach.—
Jessica Chen Weiss,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Sep. 2024
Noun
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The main detraction with these was a less comfortable fit.—
Maggie Slepian,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Feb. 2025
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Many smart investors, among them, several of my colleagues, cannot warm up to these stocks because of such obvious detractions as the lack of new products, patent expirations, and price controls.—
Karen Firestone,
CNBC,
29 Sep. 2024
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“Backbiting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backbiting. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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