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Example sentences for: libel

How can you use “libel” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

And The Insider never shows that Wigand himself became a consultant to ABC's lawyers on the libel suit.
Bringing AOL into it just adds more juice to the world's first-ever Internet libel case.
In this obscure pantheon, a place must be reserved for Klaus Kinski, the erratically gifted Polish-German actor and noted mal vivant , who tried to publish the English version of his autobiography in 1988 under the massively ironic title All I Need is Love . The book was caught in a copyright dispute between Random House and a West German publisher, with huge libel problems looming; it was withdrawn shortly after publication, and became one of the books most often stolen from public libraries.
Opera diva Jessye Norman lost her bid to sue for libel over a "vulgar and undignified" quip about her size.
Journalists tend to think that libel law exists to let rich and famous slimeballs escape criticism, but there are times when the law, even the notoriously anti-press British version of it, does what it's supposed to do: protect the innocent against unfounded accusations of crimes of a heinous nature.