noun. undefined

noun. The legally indefensible publication or broadcast of words or images that are degrading to a person or injurious to his or her reputation.

noun. An incidence of such publication or broadcast.

noun. The written claims initiating a suit in an admiralty court.

transitive verb. To publish or broadcast a libel about (a person). synonym: malign.

noun. In law, a petition for a decree in divorce.

In admiralty law, Scots law, and English ecclesiastical law, to serve a libel upon; institute suit against; present a formal charge against for trial, as against a clergyman for conduct unbecoming his office, or against a ship or goods for a violation of the laws of trade or revenue. See libel, n., 2.

To defame or expose to public hatred or contempt by a malicious and injurious publication, as a writing, picture, or the like; lampoon.

Synonyms Defame, Calumniate, etc. See asperse.

To spread defamation, written or printed: with against.

noun. A writing of any kind; a written declaration or certificate.

noun. In admiralty law, Scots law, and English ecclesiastical law, a writing or document instituting a suit and containing the plaintiff's allegations.

noun. A lampoon.

noun. A defamatory writing made public; a malicious and injurious publication, expressed in printing or writing, or by signs or pictures, tending either to injure the memory of one dead or the reputation of one alive, and to expose him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule.

noun. The crime of publishing a libel: as, he was guilty of libel.

noun. In general, defamation; a defamatory remark or act; malicious misrepresentation in conversation or otherwise; anything intended or which tends to bring a person or thing into disrepute.

noun. Synonyms See asperse and lampoon.

intransitive verb. To spread defamation, written or printed; -- with against.

transitive verb. To defame, or expose to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, by a writing, picture, sign, etc.; to lampoon.

transitive verb. To proceed against by filing a libel, particularly against a ship or goods.

noun. A brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.

noun. Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.

noun. A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law.

noun. The crime of issuing a malicious defamatory publication.

noun. A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of his cause of action, and of the relief he seeks.

noun. A written (notably as handbill) or pictorial statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation.

noun. The act or crime of displaying such a statement publicly.

verb. To defame someone, especially in a manner that meets the legal definition of libel.

noun. the written statement of a plaintiff explaining the cause of action (the defamation) and any relief he seeks

noun. a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person

verb. print slanderous statements against

"April except (1) Dr. Royce's insistence that my reply to his first libel should _not be published at all without his second libel_, and"

defamation  defame  fox's libel act  libel act  mutation of libel  

blood libel  libelant  libeled  libelee  libeler  

asperse  besmirch  calumniate  calumniation  calumny  

Bible  bible  intertribal  tribal  

accusation  affront  aspersion  blasphemy  conspiracy  

affidavit  allegation  asperse  aspersion  backbite  

libelled  libelling  

libelled  libelling  libels