| Smear in the newspaper | 
            Wall Street Journal | 
            25 Oct 2025 | 
          
          
            | Written defamation | 
            The Telegraph Mini | 
            16 Oct 2025 | 
          
          
            | Defamation of the Spanish after liberation (5) | 
            Puzzler Cryptic | 
            29 Sep 2025 | 
          
          
            | Defame in print | 
            The Times Concise | 
            20 Sep 2025 | 
          
          
            | Defamation made in print | 
            Puzzler Backwords | 
            25 Aug 2025 | 
          
          
            | Published false statement | 
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            | Defame in print | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            15 Jul 2025 | 
          
          
            | Defame falsely (5) | 
            Mirror Classic | 
            28 Jun 2025 | 
          
          
            | Defame, in a way | 
            Thomas Joseph | 
            23 Jun 2025 | 
          
          
            | Defame in print | 
            The Telegraph Cross Atlantic | 
            07 Jun 2025 | 
          
          
            | Actionable statement | 
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            | Smear in writing? | 
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            | Written defamation | 
            New York Times | 
            31 Mar 2025 | 
          
          
            | Defamation made in print | 
            Puzzler Backwords | 
            28 Mar 2025 | 
          
          
            | Crime in print | 
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            | Defamatory writing | 
            Mirror Tea Time | 
            07 Mar 2025 | 
          
          
            | It's a crime for one to be involved in a couple of quid (5) | 
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            | Defamation of the Spanish after liberation (5) | 
            Puzzler Cryptic | 
            16 Feb 2025 | 
          
          
            | Two less liberal examples of defamation (5) | 
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            | Slander in print | 
            Eugene Sheffer | 
            23 Jan 2025 | 
          
          
            | Slander in print | 
            Eugene Sheffer | 
            17 Jan 2025 | 
          
          
            | Defame in print | 
            Commuter | 
            15 Jan 2025 | 
          
          
            | Maybe I'll be blamed (5) | 
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            | Bill has a point! It's written defamation, you know! | 
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            | Defame in print | 
            Commuter | 
            07 Dec 2024 | 
          
          
            | Liable, after a loss, to be responsible for defamation (5) | 
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            | Accusation in glib eloquent fashion (5) | 
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            | Slander | 
            USA Today | 
            02 Nov 2024 | 
          
          
            | Slander and bile about student (5) | 
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            | Be ill, perhaps, due to defamation (5) | 
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            | Smear with ink? | 
            The Sun Two Speed | 
            03 Oct 2024 | 
          
          
            | Actionable words | 
            The Sun Two Speed | 
            03 Oct 2024 | 
          
          
            | Publisher's booboo | 
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            | Falsehoods in print | 
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            | Because of a written accusation Bill is forced to go East | 
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            | A defamatory statement published in written form (5) | 
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            | Defame, in a way | 
            Thomas Joseph | 
            31 Jul 2024 | 
          
          
            | Defamation in writing | 
            The Telegraph Mini | 
            28 Jul 2024 | 
          
          
            | Tort in print | 
            Newsday | 
            28 Jul 2024 | 
          
          
            | Written defamation | 
            The Telegraph Cross Atlantic | 
            28 Jul 2024 | 
          
          
            | Defamation made in print (5) | 
            Puzzler Backwords | 
            19 Jul 2024 | 
          
          
            | Defamatory statement | 
            The Telegraph Mini | 
            15 Jul 2024 | 
          
          
            | Written accusation | 
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            | Everyman is improperly described by two lines making damaging accusation (5) | 
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            | Traduce or malign | 
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            | Smear with 18? | 
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            | I'll be upset by defamation (5) | 
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            | In law, a written defamation of character (5) | 
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            | Defamation of the Spanish after liberation (5) | 
            Puzzler Cryptic | 
            09 Jun 2024 | 
          
          
            | Written defamation(5) | 
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            | False and defamatory statement made in writing or other permanent form (5) | 
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            | Tailor billed off-cut for suit material (5) | 
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            | Publish a smear | 
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            | Be ill, perhaps, due to transgression (5) | 
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            | Wrong use of words (5) | 
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            | Malign fiction including book line (5) | 
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            | Defamation (5) | 
            Puzzler | 
            11 Apr 2024 | 
          
          
            | New bill about ultimate justice, a legal consideration (5) | 
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            | To the Spanish, a political label is something illegal! (5) | 
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            | Defamatory written statement (5) | 
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            | Defamatory comments in print | 
            The Guardian Quick | 
            07 Feb 2024 | 
          
          
            | Malign in print | 
            Newsday | 
            31 Jan 2024 | 
          
          
            | Published slander (5) | 
            Puzzler | 
            25 Jan 2024 | 
          
          
            | Defamation | 
            Mirror Quick | 
            13 Jan 2024 | 
          
          
            | Student bile turned into slander | 
            Mirror Cryptic | 
            13 Jan 2024 | 
          
          
            | Defame in print | 
            Newsday | 
            08 Jan 2024 | 
          
          
            | Defamatory writing | 
            Mirror Tea Time | 
            08 Jan 2024 | 
          
          
            | Written slander | 
            Puzzler Backwords | 
            25 Dec 2023 | 
          
          
            | Legally responsible | Torts topic | Subject of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan | 
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            | Tabloid's alleged crime | 
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            | Actionable words | 
            Wall Street Journal | 
            16 Sep 2023 | 
          
          
            | Defame in print | 
            Thomas Joseph | 
            02 Sep 2023 | 
          
          
            | Defame, in a way | 
            Thomas Joseph | 
            29 Aug 2023 | 
          
          
            | Insult in print | 
            Premier Sunday | 
            23 Jul 2023 | 
          
          
            | Written defamation | 
            The Times Concise | 
            14 Jun 2023 | 
          
          
            | Written defamation | 
            Universal | 
            18 Apr 2023 | 
          
          
            | Scandal I believe is somewhat defamatory  ... | 
            The Guardian Cryptic | 
            20 Mar 2023 | 
          
          
            | Print smear? | 
            Universal | 
            07 Mar 2023 | 
          
          
            | Actionable article | 
            Wall Street Journal | 
            21 Feb 2023 | 
          
          
            | Defamation in print | 
            USA Today | 
            31 Jan 2023 | 
          
          
            | Defamatory writing | 
            Newsday | 
            29 Jan 2023 | 
          
          
            | Defame in print | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            08 Jan 2023 | 
          
          
            | Type of tort | 
            Newsday | 
            25 Dec 2022 | 
          
          
            | Smear in the newspaper | 
            Wall Street Journal | 
            08 Dec 2022 | 
          
          
            | Print issue? | 
            New York Times | 
            04 Dec 2022 | 
          
          
            | Defamatory text | 
            Thomas Joseph | 
            03 Dec 2022 | 
          
          
            | Written defamation | 
            Newsday | 
            13 Nov 2022 | 
          
          
            | Malign in print | 
            Newsday | 
            11 Sep 2022 | 
          
          
            | Defamatory writing | 
            Newsday | 
            04 Sep 2022 | 
          
          
            | Defamation | 
            The Guardian Quick | 
            30 Aug 2022 | 
          
          
            | Smear with ink? | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            29 Jul 2022 | 
          
          
            | Defame | 
            Wall Street Journal | 
            19 Jul 2022 | 
          
          
            | Defame in print | 
            Wall Street Journal | 
            29 Jun 2022 | 
          
          
            | Bad words? | 
            Universal | 
            30 Apr 2022 | 
          
          
            | Slander's cousin | 
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            | Defamatory writing | 
            Newsday | 
            27 Feb 2022 | 
          
          
            | Slanderous statements in print | 
            Irish Times Simplex | 
            26 Jan 2022 | 
          
          
            | Defamation, I'll be damned  | 
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            | Some smears | 
            New York Times | 
            17 Dec 2021 | 
          
          
            | Actionable words | 
            The Washington Post | 
            09 Sep 2021 | 
          
          
            | Actionable words | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            09 Sep 2021 | 
          
          
            | Defamatory text | 
            Thomas Joseph | 
            31 Aug 2021 | 
          
          
            | Publication of defamatory matter | 
            The Guardian Speedy | 
            06 Jun 2021 | 
          
          
            | Tortious material | 
            Newsday | 
            02 May 2021 | 
          
          
            | Cause for a lawsuit | 
            Wall Street Journal | 
            12 Apr 2021 | 
          
          
            | Defame in print, say | 
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            | Defame | 
            The Guardian Speedy | 
            28 Mar 2021 | 
          
          
            | Defame in print | 
            The Washington Post | 
            01 Mar 2021 | 
          
          
            | Defame in print | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            01 Mar 2021 | 
          
          
            | Party ends in state trial for defamation | 
            The Sun Two Speed | 
            25 Feb 2021 | 
          
          
            | Actionable words | 
            The Sun Two Speed | 
            25 Feb 2021 | 
          
          
            | Particular type of 1 Across | 
            Newsday | 
            23 Jan 2021 | 
          
          
            | Malicious defamation | 
            Universal | 
            17 Jan 2021 | 
          
          
            | Written defamation | 
            The Times Concise | 
            22 Dec 2020 | 
          
          
            | Focus of some celebrity suits | 
            New York Times | 
            12 Dec 2020 | 
          
          
            | Defamatory text | 
            Thomas Joseph | 
            01 Dec 2020 | 
          
          
            | Written defamation | 
            USA Today | 
            26 Nov 2020 | 
          
          
            | Smear with ink? | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            03 Nov 2020 | 
          
          
            | Smear with ink? | 
            The Washington Post | 
            03 Nov 2020 | 
          
          
            | Tort class topic | 
            Newsday | 
            18 Oct 2020 | 
          
          
            | Suit material | 
            The Washington Post | 
            11 Oct 2020 | 
          
          
            | Suit material | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            11 Oct 2020 | 
          
          
            | Malign in print | 
            Newsday | 
            10 Sep 2020 | 
          
          
            | Writing that can get you in trouble | 
            New York Times | 
            28 Jul 2020 | 
          
          
            | Defamation in print | 
            USA Today | 
            11 Jul 2020 | 
          
          
            | Defamation in a paper | 
            Universal | 
            04 May 2020 | 
          
          
            | Tort in print | 
            Newsday | 
            24 Apr 2020 | 
          
          
            | Defamation of character | 
            The Guardian Speedy | 
            19 Apr 2020 | 
          
          
            | Put down in print | 
            New York Times | 
            15 Mar 2020 | 
          
          
            | Defame, in a way | 
            Thomas Joseph | 
            01 Feb 2020 | 
          
          
            | Liberation ends in state trial for defamation | 
            The Sun Two Speed | 
            29 Oct 2019 | 
          
          
            | Defamation in print | 
            Universal | 
            28 Sep 2019 | 
          
          
            | Form of defamation | 
            New York Times | 
            04 Sep 2019 | 
          
          
            | Slander's counterpart | 
            Newsday | 
            28 Aug 2019 | 
          
          
            | Defame in print | 
            New York Times | 
            19 Aug 2019 | 
          
          
            | Defamation | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            17 Aug 2019 | 
          
          
            | Vilify in print | 
            Premier Sunday | 
            04 Aug 2019 | 
          
          
            | Smear in print | 
            New York Times | 
            04 Aug 2019 | 
          
          
            | What a tabloid may be sued for | 
            New York Times | 
            04 Jun 2019 | 
          
          
            | Insult in print | 
            Premier Sunday | 
            05 May 2019 | 
          
          
            | Defame in print | 
            Wall Street Journal | 
            29 Apr 2019 | 
          
          
            | Media lawyer's specialty | 
            New York Times | 
            17 Apr 2019 | 
          
          
            | Slander in print | 
            Eugene Sheffer | 
            15 Mar 2019 | 
          
          
            | Defamation in print | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            28 Feb 2019 | 
          
          
            | Defamation in print | 
            The Washington Post | 
            28 Feb 2019 | 
          
          
            | Defamatory writing | 
            Wall Street Journal | 
            02 Jan 2019 | 
          
          
            | Defame in print | 
             | 
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            | Defamation in print | 
             | 
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            | Defamatory writing | 
             | 
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            | Defamation in print | 
             | 
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            | What a tabloid may be sued for | 
             | 
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            | Smear in print | 
             | 
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            | Media lawyer's specialty | 
             | 
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            | Form of defamation | 
             | 
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            | Defame in print | 
             | 
             | 
          
          
            | Written defamation | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            04 Sep 2018 | 
          
          
            | Slander kin | 
            Universal | 
            23 Jul 2018 | 
          
          
            | Smear in print | 
            Wall Street Journal | 
            23 Jul 2018 | 
          
          
            | Defame in print | 
             | 
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            | Defame in print | 
            Thomas Joseph | 
            26 Feb 2018 | 
          
          
            | Smear in print | 
             | 
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            | Slander kin | 
             | 
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            | Actionable words | 
            The Guardian Speedy | 
            31 Dec 2017 | 
          
          
            | Publisher's concern | 
            New York Times | 
            29 Dec 2017 | 
          
          
            | Written assault on one's reputation | 
            USA Today | 
            20 Nov 2017 | 
          
          
            | Ultimately, vitriol and bile stirred up calumny  | 
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            | Tortious writing | 
            Newsday | 
            14 Jul 2017 | 
          
          
            | 'Some alcohol!' I belligerently slur | 
            The Telegraph Cryptic | 
            27 Jun 2017 | 
          
          
            | Defame in print | 
            USA Today | 
            17 Jun 2017 | 
          
          
            | Defame in print | 
            Universal | 
            26 May 2017 | 
          
          
            | Defame | 
            The Telegraph Quick | 
            10 May 2017 | 
          
          
            | Torts class subject | 
            Newsday | 
            28 Apr 2017 | 
          
          
            | Defamation | 
            The Guardian Quick | 
            14 Apr 2017 | 
          
          
            | False statement about British pound giving offence | 
            The Telegraph Cryptic | 
            26 Mar 2017 | 
          
          
            | Tabloid issue | 
            New York Times | 
            29 Jan 2017 | 
          
          
            | Publisher's concern | 
             | 
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            | Tabloid issue | 
             | 
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            | Defame in print | 
             | 
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            | Written assault on one's reputation | 
             | 
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            | Defame in print | 
             | 
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            | Printed defamation | 
            New York Times | 
            21 Nov 2016 | 
          
          
            | Slander relative | 
            Universal | 
            29 Aug 2016 | 
          
          
            | Slanderous statements in print | 
            Irish Times Simplex | 
            27 Aug 2016 | 
          
          
            | Smear in print | 
            The Washington Post | 
            22 Jul 2016 | 
          
          
            | Fact-checking can help avoid it | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            28 Feb 2016 | 
          
          
            | Malign in print | 
            USA Today | 
            20 Feb 2016 | 
          
          
            | Slander relative | 
             | 
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            | Printed defamation | 
             | 
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            | Vilify in print | 
            The Washington Post | 
            09 Dec 2015 | 
          
          
            | Defamatory text | 
            LA Times Daily | 
            20 Aug 2015 | 
          
          
            | Defame in writing | 
            Newsday | 
            17 Mar 2015 | 
          
          
            | Large degree of noise obscuring December's false report | 
            The Times Cryptic | 
            16 Jan 2015 | 
          
          
            | Generous to let artist escape for defamation  | 
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            | Vilify in print | 
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            | Defame in writing | 
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            | Defamatory text | 
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            | Type of tort | 
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            | Defamatory writing | 
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            | Defamatory writing | 
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            | Put down in writing | 
             | 
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            | Defame in print | 
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            | Material for a suit? | 
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            | Reputation wrecker | 
             | 
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            | Suit material | 
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            | Actionable words | 
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            | Defamatory text | 
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            | Material for a then-record £8,000 Liberace suit in 1959 | 
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            | Insult in print | 
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            | Defamatory text | 
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            | Smearing in ink? | 
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            | Printing error? | 
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            | Printing error? | 
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            | Smear in print | 
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            | Put down in writing? | 
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            | Defamatory text | 
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            | Actionable words | 
             | 
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            | Smear in ink | 
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            | Print falsehoods about | 
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            | Defame in writing | 
             | 
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            | Defame, in a way | 
             | 
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            | Written defamation | 
             | 
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            | Slander's kin | 
             | 
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            | Defamation in writing | 
             | 
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            | Attack in print | 
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            | Put down in writing? | 
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            | What tabloids are often sued for | 
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            | Defame in print | 
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            | Sort of tort | 
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            | Suit material? | 
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            | Actionable words | 
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            | Publishing crime | 
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            | It concerns write wrongs? | 
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            | Publishing crime | 
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            | Defame in print | 
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            | Defame in print | 
             | 
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            | Smear on the page | 
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            | Printed defamation | 
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            | Defamation in print | 
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            | Absence of Malice topic | 
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            | Malign in print | 
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            | What Wilde sued the marquess of Queensberry for | 
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            | Character assassination in print | 
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            | Written smear | 
             | 
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            | Defamation | 
             | 
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            | Tabloid lawyer's worry | 
             | 
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            | Defamation | 
             | 
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            | Character assassination | 
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            | Media lawyer's concern | 
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            | Defame in writing | 
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            | Reason to sue a publisher | 
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            | Defamation | 
             | 
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            | A form of defamation | 
             | 
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            | Slander's cousin | 
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            | Bad press? | 
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            | Slander counterpart | 
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            | Charge against a rag, maybe | 
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            | Defamatory words | 
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            | Defamatory text | 
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            | Reputation wrecker | 
             | 
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            | Suit material | 
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            | Defame, in a way | 
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            | Defamatory words | 
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            | Put down in writing? | 
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            | Kind of suit found in a courtroom | 
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            | Reason for a suit | 
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            | Tort type | 
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            | Tort type | 
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            | Malign in print | 
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            | Reason for a suit | 
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            | Defame | 
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            | Defame | 
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            | Defame in print | 
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            | Write wrongs | 
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            | Malign in a magazine | 
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            | Defame in print | 
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            | Defamation in print | 
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            | Kind of suit | 
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            | Defame in print | 
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            | Media law topic | 
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            | Form of defamation | 
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            | Kind of suit | 
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            | Slander | 
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            | Malign in print | 
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            | Give a bad name | 
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            | Reputation ruiner | 
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            | Type of suit | 
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            | Slander's well-read cousin? | 
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            | Put down in writing? | 
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            | Bad writing? | 
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            | Defame | 
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            | Drag through the mud | 
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            | Media lawyer's subject | 
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            | Calumny's kin | 
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            | Kind of suit | 
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            | Defamatory words | 
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            | Put down in print | 
             | 
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            | Defame | 
             | 
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            | Give a bad name? | 
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            | Actionable words | 
             | 
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            | Defamation in writing | 
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            | Media lawyer's concern | 
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            | Written lies | 
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            | Kind of law | 
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            | Put down in writing | 
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            | Defame | 
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            | Slander relative | 
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            | Defamatory statement | 
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            | Slander's counterpart | 
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            | Grounds for a suit | 
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            | Subject of media law | 
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            | Kind of suit | 
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            | Newspaper no-no | 
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            | Written defamation | 
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            | Malign in print | 
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            | Defame in writing | 
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            | Defame | 
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            | Subject of media law | 
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            | Cousin of slander | 
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            | Damage a reputation | 
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            | Defame | 
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            | Smear | 
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            | Malign | 
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            | Freedom-of-speech limit | 
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            | Cause for a suit | 
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            | Nizer subject | 
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            | Slander's cousin | 
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            | Printed slander | 
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            | Calumny | 
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            | Slander | 
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            | Cause for a lawsuit | 
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            | Cause of a suit | 
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            | Defame in a way | 
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            | Malign in print | 
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            | Calumny. | 
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            | Traduce. | 
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            | Slander. | 
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            | Defame. | 
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            | Expose to scorn. | 
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            | Grounds for legal action. | 
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            | A tort or a crime. | 
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            | Grounds for a suit. | 
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            | Defamation. | 
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            | Suitworthy scandal. | 
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            | Injury to one's reputation. | 
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            | Lawyer's concern. | 
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