Sample Sentences for
libel
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    A libel that'll be repeated a hundred times over if we sue.†  (source)
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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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    "Can't libel the dead," he says.†  (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)
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    Oh, I thought they had been libelling me to you.†  (source)
    unconventional 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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans do not repeat the "L" prior to adding the "ED".
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    Dumas Lee wrote for The Ford County Times and was famous for screwing up the facts and barely dodging libel suits.†  (source)
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    I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.†  (source)
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