libel

The painter sued him for libel in a case that proved a Pyrrhic victory, leaving the plaintiff bankrupt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

“In fact, the legal threat is much greater in the U.K. because the libel laws are tougher in the U.K. So there was no fear around putting it out in the U.S.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Former Coronation Street actor Qasim Akhtar is to receive "substantial" damages from the Sun's publisher, to settle a High Court libel claim.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

In 2014, it was reported that he had loaned David Hunt £1m, after a failed libel action against the Sunday Times left the crime boss with an £800,000 legal bill.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

They brood; they emote; but the idea that they are murderous is a cultural libel.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

What’s needed is a pragmatic and courageous paradigm shift, one that begins with naming and recognizing the contemporary libels used to demonize Jews.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026

In response, Meshi-Zahav wrote a letter saying “these libels are baseless and appear more as gossip and closing of accounts against me.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2021

"Far from increasing a public figure’s burden in a defamation action, the common law deemed libels against public figures to be, if anything, more serious and injurious than ordinary libels," Thomas wrote.

From Fox News ● Feb. 19, 2019

Adams’s Federalists, he writes, “struck at enemies at home with laws allowing the president to deport aliens he deemed dangerous and the federal courts to prosecute libels on the federal government.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2019

At the start of the correspondence Adams had felt deep resentment toward Jefferson for the libels he had sponsored during the Adams presidency.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

I will be consulting my lawyers regarding what was libeled against me on 'The View' this morning.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2023

“Governor Bryant believes he has been libeled by Mississippi Today,” wrote Denton Gibbes, a Bryant spokesperson, in an email.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

Actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are back in court to determine whether Heard libeled her ex-husband in 2018 when she wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2022

The founders of Alfa Bank, a major Russian financial institution, are suing Fusion GPS, claiming the firm libeled them.

From New York Times ● May 15, 2021

Some of these terrors were landscapes, some libeled the sea, some were ostensible portraits, all were crimes.

From The American Claimant by Mark Twain

"Scott was detained and interviewed at that time, however, due to a lack of corroboration, no charges were able to be libelled."

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2018

The dead can’t be libelled, but they can have their privacy invaded.

From Nature ● May 1, 2018

Do you realise you've now libelled two people in the space of five minutes?

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2017

There was a lot written afterwards about how Deliverance libelled mountain people.

From The Guardian ● May 29, 2017

For the truth of this assertion, I appeal to every servant of God who has had the pleasure of addressing that libelled and neglected part of erring mankind.

From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by John N. Reynolds

And while libeling your neighbor once might have required some extra effort — printing up flyers, say, or renting a billboard — now it’s as easy as grabbing your phone in an angry moment.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2022

The burden is still on Palin to prove that Bennet is guilty of libeling her.

From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2022

And who knows who’s responsible for an unnecessary portrayal of media ethics that strains credulity and verges on libeling the fourth estate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2021

Last month, she sued two Portuguese news outlets for allegedly libeling a New Jersey man by tying him to a far-right Portuguese political party.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2021

Burr was there because Hamilton had been libeling him throughout their crisscrossing careers in public life.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

In 1992, some of the subjects of “Boys of Zinc,” along with an organization representing the mothers of soldiers killed in the war, sued Alexievich for libelling the Soviet military.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 26, 2015

I feel it’s happening already, that the people who say, ‘He’s lying, he’s plagiarising, he’s libelling us’, will end up having more importance than my own research, my own attempts to investigate how things work.”

From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2015

Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images It seems that , found guilty of libelling Lord McAlpine, is a Twitter martyr in some quarters.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2013

Her second marriage ended in divorce within a year, and she had to settle out of court with her first husband's family over accusations that she was libelling them in her act.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2012

Mackenzie, they alleged, had libelled the House by libelling a majority of its members, and he had neither made nor attempted to make any reparation or apology.

From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by John Charles Dent