as in libeled
to make untrue and harmful statements about
the short-lived Sedition Act of 1798 made it illegal to calumniate the President of the United States
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His windshield is smeared with the dust of a lengthy road journey.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
22 May 2026 -
But the pigment and gum are largely invisible, because harding and Upkett smeared them with white paint used by the Carnegie Museum to cover its walls.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
12 May 2026
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Now, the ultimate question of whether Walters slandered Miller will return to the district court.—
Dale Denwalt,
Oklahoman,
29 Jan. 2026
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Jerry Jones slandered my name to Cowboys media and national media for months.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
1 Jan. 2026
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You can be humiliated, and won’t that be awful?—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
19 May 2026
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Those who don’t get the job leave diminished, sometimes humiliated, and the institution absorbs the damage quietly for years.—
Paul Hardart,
Fortune,
9 May 2026
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Day, acquitted of one killing, but convicted of the other in 1994, has long alleged Chicago police tied to disgraced former police Cmdr.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2026
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King may be familiar to followers of Massachusetts State Police scandals as his state case came up in the fallout to the revelations regarding disgraced ex-Trooper Michael Proctor.—
Lance Reynolds,
Boston Herald,
9 May 2026
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“Calumniated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calumniated. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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