libel

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A year after he lampooned a judge in a mocking poem, he had the misfortune of standing before him charged with seditious libel for a pamphlet satirizing the Church.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

The phrase was first used in Parliament, and could therefore be repeated by journalists without risk of libel.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

In 1932 she reported on the libel trial brought against Hitler by a former Nazi henchman.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

The defendants also include a woman already the subject of a libel complaint filed by Brigitte Macron in 2022: Delphine J., 51, a self-proclaimed spiritual medium who goes by the pseudonym Amandine Roy.

From Barron's • Oct. 27, 2025

“It’s outrageous that this has been printed. There should be rules . . .” “Can’t libel the dead,” he says.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins