This means avoiding things like libelous or potentially slanderous statements, but it also means not doing business with unscrupulous individuals.

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Later Greene amended his denial, saying the statements Tice complained about were either true or Greene's privileged opinion and therefore not slanderous, court documents say.

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The agreement called for the apology to take place on a conference call with Tice and the individuals to whom Greene made the allegedly slanderous comments about Tice.

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Such a view is a slanderous misjudgment, says Peter Gay, emeritus professor of history at Yale, whose new book is a witty and sophisticated defence of the Victorian middle class.

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Mr Cahuzac, who said in a statement that he was quitting for the good of the government, insisted he was innocent of the "slanderous" allegations first published last year by Mediapart, an investigative website.

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It is now extremely difficult, if not impossible, to police the sometimes slanderous ramblings of others and, as a result, the newspapers suddenly found what they offered the public was rather tame in comparison.

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To the contrary, I express a sentiment that I have heard from a vast number of women, who collectively have said that your recent article entitled "Don't Marry a Career Woman" was read with disgust, disdain, and pity for a group of people who could be so utterly insensitive and boorish in approving such slanderous filth.

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