Word: slanderous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sinyavsky and Daniel attempted to convince their judges that such creative effort was not intended as anti-Soviet propaganda. But Soviet officials were incapable of distinguishing the language of fiction from that of subversive slander. They condemned the stories as hostile agitation without taking into account the creative use of allegory and allusion...
Judge Smirnov: Slander is the circulation of deliberately false, defamatory inventions. This means that what you write is slanderous...
...they do investigate us, it will not be pleasant," he said, not because we have anything to hide but because they have a history of slander and distortion...
...Slander my name all over the place...
...acquittal of Tom Coleman [Oct. 8] and the way it was accomplished is unbelievably cynical and disgusting. The trial was an open mockery of justice and a blatant display of malice and slander. If a community cannot do any better than this, it has forfeited the right to try such cases...