criminal defamation
noun
law : defamation that constitutes a crime (as because it was made maliciously) and is subject to criminal penalties
Word History
First Known Use
1875, in the meaning defined above
- family name
- family names
- family of nations
- family of orientation
- family of procreation
- family pet
- family physician
- family physicians
- family planning
- family practice
- family practitioner
- family practitioners
- family resemblance
- family reunion
- family romance
- family room
- family settlement
- family skeleton
- family style
- family tree
- family trees
- family values
- family wage
- family way
- family-tree theory