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UK
/lˈaɪbələs/
]
[ US /ˈɫaɪbəɫəs/ ]
[ US /ˈɫaɪbəɫəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
How To Use libelous In A Sentence
- These damages are measured by how much the libelous statements lower the plaintiff's reputation.
- The claimant cannot select apparently libellous statements if the passage taken as a whole is not defamatory.
- It was conceded by the defendant that the impugned language used in the letter was libellous.
- They use the example of stock message boards where people reveal all sorts of defaming and libelous content to try to move a stock.
- Xiong said Internet companies should suspend the accounts of users who spread rumors or libelous statements.
- The troubles began when certain anonymous productions, known as "Fly Sheets," severely criticised the administration of Methodism and libellously assailed the characters of leading ministers, especially Dr. Bunting, who stood head and shoulders above all others in this Methodist war. Great Britain and Her Queen
- When does a joke stop being funny and start being libellous?
- Who can get the other to tell the more libelous story?
- In the name of press freedom and nationalism we deliberately wrote seditious and criminally libellous articles against colonial governments.
- A libelous campaign pamphlet is harder to punish if it is anonymous.