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Pronunciation: [lˈa͡ɪbə͡lz] (IPA)

Libels are statements made in writing that are false and defamatory. Synonyms for libels include slander, defamation, calumny, misrepresentation, and false accusation. These synonyms all refer to statements that are made with intent to harm another person's reputation. Slander is the spoken form of a libel, where defamation is a more general term for any false statement that harms another's reputation. Calumny and misrepresentation refer to false statements made to intentionally harm someone's reputation. False accusation specifically refers to false statements made about a person accusing them of a crime or wrongdoing. All of these terms are serious accusations that can have legal consequences if proven to be true.
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The answer is pat: New York and Chicago-unless Mr. Townsend's Chimmie Fadden and Mr. Ade's Artie are sheer linguistic libels.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
For learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world; and printing has divulged them and libels against the government.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
Alone with the younger man, he exhausts himself in coarse libels against the woman, of whom that morning only he was speaking, as the lost opportunity of his life; bids him ask of her what he desires, and have it; and calls on him to admit, that in preserving him from marrying her, and placing her nevertheless at his disposal, he will have earned his gratitude, and paid the value of the ten thousand pounds.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr

Famous quotes with Libels

  • Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
    Charles Dickens
  • Words are not deeds. In published poems — we think first of Eliot's "Jew", words edge closer to deeds. In Céline's anti-Semitic textbooks, words get as close to deeds as words can well get. Blood libels scrawled on front doors are deed. In a correspondence, words are hardly even words. They are soundless cries and whispers, "gouts of bile," as Larkin characterized his political opinions, ways of saying, "Gloomy old sod, aren't I?" Or more simply, "Grrr." Correspondences are self-dramatizations. Above all, a word in a letter is never your last word on any subject. There was no public side to Larkin's prejudices, and nothing that could be construed as a racist — the word suggest a system of thought, rather than an absence of thought, which would be closer to the reality, closer to the jolts and twitches of self response.
    Martin Amis

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