Words "So Indefinite, Ambiguous and Incertain" That They Aren't Treated as Slanderous

reason.com/volokh/2025/07/09/words-so-indefinite-ambiguous-and-incertain-that-they-arent-treated-as-slanderous

This is a familiar principle in modern defamation law: Some words, however pejorative, are treated as too general to be the sorts of factual allegations that can count as defamation. I just came across the same principle in Marshall v. Addison (Md. Provincial Ct. 1773), and thought it…

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