Words similar to libel
Example sentences for: libel
How can you use “libel” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Bringing AOL into it just adds more juice to the world's first-ever Internet libel case.
It bears about as much semblance to what I've written as a creationist tract attacking evolution bears to Darwin's Origin of Species . It is so outrageous one almost yearns for British laws on libel so that I could force her to prove her claims, such as that I am "evolutionary psychology's anti-Semite" or that my ideas about Jews "represent the broadest, ugliest, and most vicious anti-Semitism passing for scholarship in this country today."
While plenty of psychiatrists did question Goldwater's temperament and judgment, the study's methodology was so egregiously flawed that Goldwater won a libel suit against the magazine.
Another factor that discourages negative reviews is the risk of a libel suit.
Lord Justice Peter Gibson ruled that these words could never convey that defamatory meaning: "I could have wished Miss Norman had told the hoary old joke contained in the subject of this libel action as it would have shown that, in addition to possessing the remarkable vocal and dramatic talents which have made her world-famous as a distinguished opera singer, she had an engaging sense of humour.