noun, feminine/di.fa.ma.sjɔ̃/plural: diffamations
defamation
“C’est le propre de la législation sur la presse de mettre en balance liberté d’expression et protection contre la diffamation, l’injure ou l’incitation à la haine.”
Inherited from Old French diffamacion, borrowed from Latin diffāmātiōnem, from diffāmō (“to spread an unfavorable report; to defame, malign, decry”), from dis- + fāma (“report, opinion, reputation”).