noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
malicious
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He described the article as grossly defamatory ... and said the case contained the essentials of a malicious falsehood action.
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The action of malicious or injurious falsehood has both similarities to, and important differences from, an action for libel.
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In malicious falsehood the aggrieved, in this case Miss Joyce, must show the Today's comments are false.
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Grappelli had to be content with an action for malicious falsehood .
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The action for malicious falsehood is much less favourable to plaintiffs than defamation.
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Firstly, legal aid is not available for libel, but it may be granted for malicious falsehood .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Why Campbell had chosen to spread such a falsehood is a mystery.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And some high priests have told falsehoods.
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Others again have taken as the play's essence the need to reconcile not truth and falsehood but competing truths.
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The action of malicious or injurious falsehood has both similarities to, and important differences from, an action for libel.
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They have a duty to set the record straight, otherwise they are conniving at falsehood .
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Yet again, it was a falsehood which she would need to explain and correct.