malicious statement

Police initially focused their inquiry on his son after another man, Jafran Jamil, made a malicious statement.

The jailer stoutly denied the accusation, and charged the prisoner in his turn with making a malicious statement to bring him into discredit.

Utterly false and malicious statement!

The same kind of malicious statement posted online can spread farther and last forever.

It has not been proved otherwise to me, for all that I have peered over his shoulder and read his malicious statement to the contrary.