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:

Blumenthal saga has legs--after all, it could be the first Internet libel suit, with a White House connection, no less.
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in a copyright dispute between Random House and a West German publisher, with huge libel problems looming; it was withdrawn shortly after publication, and became one of the books most often stolen from public libraries.
No responsible reporter will allege a firing if she can't prove it, because that would risk a libel suit.
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."
The character of Carolyn is so shrill as to constitute a libel on the female sex, but there isn't a second when Bening sends the woman up.