libel
- IPA[ˈlīb(ə)l]
美式
- a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation.；the action or crime of publishing a false statement about a person
- defame (someone) by publishing a libel；make a false and typically malicious statement about.
verb: libel, 3rd person present: libels, gerund or present participle: libelling, past tense: libelled, past participle: libelled
noun: libel, plural noun: libels
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名詞
- 1. a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation.
- ▪ the action or crime of publishing a false statement about a person a libel action a councilor who sued two national newspapers for libel
- ▪ a false and typically malicious statement about a person.
- ▪ a thing or circumstance that brings undeserved discredit on a person by misrepresentation.
- 2. (in admiralty and ecclesiastical law) a plaintiff's written declaration.
動詞
- 1. defame (someone) by publishing a libel she alleged the magazine had libeled her
- ▪ make a false and typically malicious statement about.
- 2. (in admiralty and ecclesiastical law) bring a suit against if a ship does you any injury you libel the ship
- a published statement which is seditious: his publication in 1763 was decided by the courts to be a seditious libel on George III
Oxford American Dictionary
- a published statement which is seditious: his publication in 1763 was decided by the courts to be a seditious libel on George III
Oxford Dictionary
- a malicious, defamatory statement in a permanent form, rendering the maker liable to criminal ...
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- an accusation that Jewish people used the blood of Christians in religious rituals, especially ...
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- the offence of making a malicious defamatory statement in a permanent form.
Oxford Dictionary
- an accusation that Jewish people used the blood of Christians in religious rituals, especially ...
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- IPA[ˈlʌɪbl]
英式
- a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation: he was found guilty of a libel on a Liverpool inspector of taxes
- defame (someone) by publishing a libel: the jury found that he was libelled by a newspaper
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