libel
Example Sentences
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What’s needed is a pragmatic and courageous paradigm shift, one that begins with naming and recognizing the contemporary libels used to demonize Jews.
In 1932 she reported on the libel trial brought against Hitler by a former Nazi henchman.
Some said it was a scar left behind by the Damascus Affair, the blood libel that had driven his Harari ancestors from the city for good.
From Literature
Lu has filed libel and defamation suits in South Africa, Australia, the U.K. and other countries against some of his critics, including Longwe, the internet-service provider executive in Malawi.
Upon its publication in 1857, two years after the death of the author of “Jane Eyre,” Gaskell received angry letters, threats of libel lawsuits and outraged responses from Brontë’s father and her widower.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
