defamed

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Mr Justice Chamberlain found two of those statements, as well as later comments by the county's police, fire and crime commissioner, Roger Hirst, about the investigation, may have defamed Pearson.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

District Judge Darrin Gayles, based in Miami, Fla., ruled Trump hadn’t made a valid legal claim that he was defamed by an article about a letter to financier Jeffrey Epstein bearing Trump’s name.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

The president claimed the newspaper defamed him in a 17 July report that said Trump's name was in a "birthday book" given to Epstein in 2003.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

County officials defamed him and violated his rights.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2025

Bernard Gui hotly denied these assertions, which he declared to be precisely those with which the heretics defamed the Holy Office to its great damage.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles