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(countable) A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation. / (uncountable) The act or tort of displaying such a statement publicly.

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libel

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Source Word

libel

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈlaɪbəl/

Noun

countable uncountable

Japanese Meaning

（可算名詞）誰かの評判を不当に傷つけるために書かれた、または描かれた事実に基づかない虚偽の記述。 / （不可算名詞）そのような記述を公に掲示する行為や不法行為自体。

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The newspaper was sued for libel after publishing the false allegations about the mayor.

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その新聞は市長に関する虚偽の告発を掲載したため、文書による名誉毀損で訴えられた。

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(countable) A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation.

Peter Parker: Spider-Man wasn't trying to attack the city, he was trying to save it. That's slander.J. Jonah Jameson: It is not! I resent that! Slander is spoken. In print, it's libel.

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(uncountable) The act or tort of displaying such a statement publicly.

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(countable) Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.

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These provisions of law being in force, the steamer Rio Grande, owned, as was alleged, by persons in Mexico, being in the port of Mobile, in the Southern District of Alabama, certain materialmen, on the 26th of November, 1867, filed separate libels against her in the district court for the said district.

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