libel
Example Sentences
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A year after he lampooned a judge in a mocking poem, he had the misfortune of standing before him charged with seditious libel for a pamphlet satirizing the Church.
In August, Clarke lost his libel case against the Guardian, after he sued the newspaper's publisher.
From BBC
The phrase was first used in Parliament, and could therefore be repeated by journalists without risk of libel.
From BBC
What’s needed is a pragmatic and courageous paradigm shift, one that begins with naming and recognizing the contemporary libels used to demonize Jews.
In 1932 she reported on the libel trial brought against Hitler by a former Nazi henchman.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
