libellous in English

adjective
1
containing or constituting a libel.
a libelous newspaper story
adjective

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "libellous" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "libellous", or refer to the context using the word "libellous" in the English Dictionary.

1. No distinction is made between the libellous (written) and the slanderous (spoken) forms of defamation.

2. Synonyms for Calumnious include defamatory, libellous, slanderous, abusive, derogatory, insulting, libelous, lying, scandalous and aspersive

3. Anyone may post anything on viXra, though house rules do prohibit “vulgar, libellous, plagiaristic or dangerously misleading” content.

4. " rder avails nothing to the suppressing of scandalous, seditious, and libellous books, which were mainly intended to be suppressed. "

5. Calumnious - (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign calumniatory , defamatory , denigrating , denigrative , denigratory , libellous , libelous , slanderous

6. Calumnious: 1 adj (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign Synonyms: calumniatory , defamatory , denigrating , denigrative , denigratory , libellous , libelous , slanderous harmful causing or capable of causing harm