Offenses against Honor

Interlinked Thematic Vocabulary Unit Nº 228 Version 01

       Main Definitions

1. aspersion |n| an attack on someone's character or reputación.
2. "Don't cast aspersions on my honesty."
3. "I don't think anyone is casting aspersions on you."
4. defamation / defame / obloquy / traduce / |n| a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions.
5. "He sued the newspaper for defamation of character."
6. "The company sued for defamation."
7. "He brought a legal action against the magazine for defamation of character."
8. "Such a defamation might cause injury to the business goodwill of the corporation."
9. denigration 1 |n| a belittling comment. 
10. denigration 2 |n| an abusive attack on a person's character or good name.
11. "The amendment prohibits obscene or indecent materials which denigrate the objects or beliefs of a particular religion.
12. fabrication |formal| |n| a story or claim that someone has invented in order or claim that someone has invented in order to deceive someone, or the act of doing this.
13. "The claim was described as a fabrication by the police prosecutor."
14. "He dismissed the charges as pure fabrication." 

          Defamation in Written

1. calunmy |n| the making of false and defamatory statements about someone.
2. "He was subjected to the most vicious calumny, but he never complained and never sued."
3. "He accused the press of publishing vicious calumnies."
4. hatched job |n| |inf| a fierce written attack.
5. "Fleck was certainly not the only critic to do a hatched job on h is latest novel."
6. "They were afraid I was going to do a hatched job on them."
7. "The author's attempted hatchet job on the judge was totally unjustified and irresponsible."

          Definitions into Legal World

1. libel |n| the crime of writing lies that could make people have a bad opinion of someone, especially in a newspaper or magazine.
2. "She sued the newspaper for libel."
3. slander |n| the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation.
4. "She regarded his comment as a slander on her good reputation."
5. "He's threatening to sue them for slander."
6. "A slander on the good name of the company."
7. "Linking his name to terrorism was a slander." 

      People

1. backbiter / defamer / maligner / slanderer / traducer / viliefer |n| one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel.
2. libeler |n| a person who publishes a libel assailing another. 

          Post Related to Crime

1. Main Crime Elements
2. Drug Trafficking
3. Frauds
4. Kidnapping
5. Murder
6. Robberies
7. Smuggling
8. Offenders in General
9. Police Forces
10. Police Equipment
11. Criminal Investigations
12. Arrest
13. Jailbreak

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