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:

The main point they expressed was that, while not legally precise, "innocent" was preferable because it doesn't run the risk of libel that "not guilty" does if the "not" is inadvertently dropped.
Simpson novel, Another City, Not My Own : "That book [Dunne's own Season in Purgatory ], the miniseries of which he was watching, had brought Gus Bailey and the unsolved murder in Greenwich, Connecticut, which, to avoid a libel suit, he had renamed Scarborough Hill, a great deal of notoriety at the time of its publication, resulting in the reopening of the murder case by the police."
Another factor that discourages negative reviews is the risk of a libel suit.
Our ongoing "Dialogue" about Internet gossip columnist Matt Drudge and his Drudge Report , between Susan Estrich and David Frum, switches from discussing the issue of libel on the Internet to the question of Drudge's role in starting the Clinton scandal.
The British know that, having seen more of Broomfield's movies and regarding him as the British equivalent of Michael Moore, the director of the unprincipled Roger & Me . But Americans who see Kurt and Courtney and think that where there's smoke, there may be fire, might not realize that for the last decade or so, Broomfield has made movies whose sole purpose appears to be to stalk, torment, and libel the controversial female public figures he chooses as his subjects.