Dictionary Entry
libel
libel is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.
- 2noun
Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
The crime of issuing a malicious defamatory publication.
- 5noun
A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of his cause of action, and of the relief he seeks.
- 6transitive verb
To defame, or expose to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, by a writing, picture, sign, etc.; to lampoon.
- 7transitive verb
To proceed against by filing a libel, particularly against a ship or goods.
- 8intransitive verb
To spread defamation, written or printed; -- with against.
- 9noun
the written statement of a plaintiff explaining the cause of action (the defamation) and any relief he seeks
- 10noun
a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person
- 11verb
print slanderous statements against
"The newspaper was accused of libeling him"
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