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Libelous   /lˈaɪbələs/   Listen
Libelous

adjective
(Written also libellous)
1.
(used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign.  Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, slanderous.






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"Libelous" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ritz. It was, she felt, a place where married ladies without husbands would be neither noticed nor commented on. There is, after all, nothing so very unusual in a wedding ring and Miss Wilcox's appearance did not arouse idle and libelous speculations. But still, she felt safer at the Ritz—there is something so conspicuous about a ...
— Balloons • Elizabeth Bibesco

... resenting their bad treatment in a way to make itself felt, yet gave the mob no excuse for further murder, until the appearance of the editorial which is construed as a reflection on the "honor" of the Southern white women. It is not half so libelous as that of the Commercial which appeared four days before, and which has been given in these pages. They would have lynched the manager of the Free Speech for exercising the right of free speech if they had found him as quickly as they would have hung a rapist, and glad of ...
— Southern Horrors - Lynch Law in All Its Phases • Ida B. Wells-Barnett

... right. Peter Measel, missionary on his own account, and sometime keeper of most libelous accounts, stepped out from the shadows and essayed to warm himself, walking past the German with a sort of mincing gait not calculated to assert his manliness. Hans von Quedlinburg stretched out a strong arm and hurled him back again into the ...
— The Eye of Zeitoon • Talbot Mundy

... Yet this libelous production was reprinted as late as Eighteen Hundred Ninety. Cheetham's book was quoted as an authority on Thomas Paine until the year Nineteen Hundred, when Moncure D. Conway's exhaustive "Life" made the pious ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen • Elbert Hubbard



Words linked to "Libelous" :   libel, harmful



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