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Libelous

Libelous meaning

Defamatory, libeling, referring to something that causes harm to someone's reputation especially with malice or disregard. | Meeting the legal standards for libel.

Example sentences (16)

Having run down INEC with all manner of foul language, some libelous and scandalous, others very profane and unguarded, I am wondering if Obi would accept another election contest under the INEC as its umpire.

No suggestion has been made that Amelia Ferrell Knisely, formerly with West Virginia Public Broadcasting, published anything false or libelous.

The Qatar-based Al Jazeera news channel has quietly removed a libelous fabricated story accusing Israeli soldiers of raping Arab women in Gaza, a day after it went viral on social media.

In 2016, Toufanian hired a lawyer to send a letter to Gawker Media demanding that it take down two negative articles about him, calling them libelous.

In libelous invective, the accused Ji, the defector-turned-politician, of being a “rapscallion and a criminal” and a “pervert”– common criticisms issued by North Korea against high-profile escapees.

Comments that include libelous statements are subject to review from editors.

I’m also familiar with the proposal and I think Brinkley’s accusations made last week are inaccurate, dishonest, and possibly libelous to Clark.

The article’s choice of words could be construed as inflammatory and libelous.

According to Boston, the Falcon’s editor-in-chief, for material to be libelous, it must be false.

Franchini, represented by attorney David Van Dyke of Lewiston, claims reports published about him last October were libelous and damaging, resulting in a loss of employment and future earnings estimated to exceed $3.4 million.

Many concerned citizens contacted me and demanded for the said member of SLPP to be arrested and charged to court as the evidence against his libelous and seditious activities were so overwhelming.

The court papers further read that the Kogi State Governor’s Chief of Staff also wants the court to compel the three defendants to publish in at least three national dailies a public apology retracting the malicious and libelous publication against him.

A union newsletter had published a "list of scabs," which was granted to be factual and therefore not libelous, but then went on to quote the passage as the "definition of a scab".

In addition to the above, the defendant may claim that the allegedly defamatory statement is not actually capable of being defamatory—an insulting statement that does not actually harm someone's reputation is prima facie not libelous.

It was an appalling and libelous account alleging amorous ties between Grigori Rasputin and the Empress.

Torvald returns from the bank, and Nora pleads with him to reinstate Krogstad, claiming she is worried Krogstad will publish libelous articles about Torvald and ruin his career.