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The newspaper was accused of libeling her.libeling = publishing a falsehood that damaged
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The article is filled with libel.libel = published falsehoods that damages a someone's reputation
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You've perpetrated a near libel here in the front yard. (source)libel = a malicious lie about someone
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In a landmark ruling, New York Times v. Sullivan changed the standard for defamation and libel by requiring plaintiffs to prove malice—that is, evidence of actual knowledge on the part of the publisher that a statement is false.† (source)
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To tell you I've contacted my lawyer, Hibbie Goodman, who happens to be the number one expert on the libel laws in Mississippi, and you are in big trouble, missy.† (source)
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At the time, I thought he was a fruitcake, but a London columnist who made a similar slur regarding Liberace's sexual preferences lost a libel judgment to him.† (source)
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Rumors circulated that emaciated Jews returning from the camps were using gentile children's blood for transfusions, a revival of the ancient accusation known as blood libel.† (source)
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Arab newspapers printed blood libels that few Arabs could even read.† (source)libels = publishes a falsehood that damages someone's reputation
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Oh, I thought they had been libelling me to you.† (source)libelling = publishing a falsehood that damages someone's reputationunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans do not repeat the "L" prior to adding the "ING".
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To some extent he had attempted to shrug off his attackers, stating that he had expected to be libeled and abused, particularly by the Abolitionists and intellectuals who had previously scorned him, much as George Washington and others before him had been abused.† (source)libeled = published a falsehood that damaged someone's reputation
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therefore, seeing no prospect of an accommodation between my brother and me, he gave his consent to my returning again to Philadelphia, advis'd me to behave respectfully to the people there, endeavor to obtain the general esteem, and avoid lampooning and libeling, to which he thought I had too much inclination;† (source)libeling = publishing a falsehood that damages someone's reputation
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He, Adams, had been held up to ridicule in one newspaper after another for his meanness (the New Haven Gazette had called him an "unprincipled libeler"), his love of monarchy, his antipathy to freedom.† (source)libeler = someone who publishes a falsehood that damages someone's reputation
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He was again prosecuted, and was sentenced to lose WHAT REMAINED OF HIS EARS, to pay a fine of 5,000 pounds, to be BRANDED ON BOTH HIS CHEEKS with the letters S. L. (for Seditious Libeller), and to remain in prison for life.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it libeler.
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The court had just ruled that Blomkvist had libelled and defamed the financier Hans-Erik Wennerström.† (source)libelled = published a falsehood that damaged someone's reputationunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans do not repeat the "L" prior to adding the "ED".
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And her parties, and their vigorous libel actions against national newspapers.† (source)
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If a man hits you, hit him back; if a man libels you, haul him up.† (source)libels = publishes a falsehood that damages someone's reputation
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