noun, verb
noun [U,C] the act of printing a statement about sb that is not true and that gives people a bad opinion of them; a printed statement about sb that is not true:
He sued the newspaper for libel. * a libel action (= a case in a court of law)
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verb (-ll-, AmE -l-) [VN] to publish a written statement about sb that is not true:
He claimed he had been libelled in an article the magazine had published.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for libel is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does libel appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — libel appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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