had defamed
- past perfect of defame.
Example Sentences
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She first took legal action in March 2022, alleging the duchess had defamed her by giving information to an unauthorised biography called Finding Freedom and by discussing their relationship with Winfrey on live television.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2024
After a six-week trial, a jury found in June 2022 that Heard had defamed her former husband in a Washington Post opinion piece and acted with malice by casting him as a domestic abuser.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
In three posts Wednesday on Truth Social, Trump offered fresh support for claims he made about Carroll that led the jury to conclude he had defamed her.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
During the hearing, Mr. Chanchai detailed how Ms. Puttanee’s Twitter posts had defamed his company.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
General Jackson had come to Washington with a sad heart, breathing vengeance against those who had defamed his wife during the Presidential canvass, thereby, as he thought, hastening her death.
From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Poore, Benjamin Perley
