Libellous synonyms

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calumniatory
Containing calumny; slanderous.
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calumnious
Full of calumnies; slanderous
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defamatory
Used in reference to an utterance, to indicate that it is false and harmful to the reputation of another.
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denigrative
(used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
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denigrating
(used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
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denigratory
Tending to denigrate.
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libelous
(US) defamatory, libeling, referring to something that causes harm to someone's reputation especially with malice or disregard.
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slanderous
Characterized by or constituting slander
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objectionable (related)
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obscene (related)
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Libellous Sentence Examples

  • The personal element is conspicuous in the Brazilian journalism, and for a considerable period of its history libellous attacks on persons, signed by professional sponsors, popularly called testas de ferro (iron heads), were admitted at so much a line in the best newspapers.

  • At the Restoration he signed the declaration required by the Act of Uniformity, and on this account he was the subject of a libellous attack, published in 1665, entitled Covenant-Renouncers Desperate Apostates.

  • Voltaire, who had been sent home, submitted, and for a time pretended to work in a Parisian lawyer's office; but he again manifested a faculty for getting into trouble - this time in the still more dangerous way of writing libellous poems - so that his father was glad to send him to stay for nearly a year (1714-15) with Louis de Caumartin, marquis de Saint-Ange, in the country.

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