An imputation that a person behaved dishonestly in their professional conduct — such as pretending to suffer from stress to avoid a work transfer — reflects on both personal and professional character and is necessarily defamatory, admitting of only one answer. A jury verdict finding such an imputation not defamatory will be set aside as perverse.
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