libel
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One newspaper denounced “The Playboy of the Western World” as an “unmitigated, prolonged libel upon Irish peasant men and, worse still, upon Irish peasant girlhood.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
The phrase was first used in Parliament, and could therefore be repeated by journalists without risk of libel.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026
Upon its publication in 1857, two years after the death of the author of “Jane Eyre,” Gaskell received angry letters, threats of libel lawsuits and outraged responses from Brontë’s father and her widower.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Smart Shirts Ltd, a Hong Kong supplier of garments with customers in the UK, brought a claim for libel, alleging it had been defamed as its name was included.
From BBC • Nov. 3, 2025
He’d also been convicted of fraud for a scam in which he got an obituary of himself published, then sued the newspaper for libel and damages up to $100 million.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
Vocabulary lists containing libel
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