libel
Speech parts
1. libel - Noun
2. libel - Verb
Meaning
A brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.
Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.
A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law.
The crime of issuing a malicious defamatory publication.
A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of his cause of action, and of the relief he seeks.
To defame, or expose to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, by a writing, picture, sign, etc.; to lampoon.
To proceed against by filing a libel, particularly against a ship or goods.
To spread defamation, written or printed; -- with against.
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth-a fact that is recognized by the law of libel.
I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
Titles are tinsel, power a corruptor, glory a bubble, and excessive wealth, a libel on its possessor.
The greater the truth, the greater the libel.