Synonyms for libelous
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : lahy-buh-luh s |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈlaɪ bə ləs |
Top 10 synonyms for libelous
Définition of libelous
Origin :- also libellous, 1610s, from libel (n.) + -ous. Related: Libelously; libelousness.
- adj derogatory
- Would the editors of the Commune do anything about the base, libelous article?
- Extract from : « Molly Brown's Senior Days » by Nell Speed
- No, indeed, slander and libelous talk are not necessary ingredients of gossip.
- Extract from : « Conversation » by Mary Greer Conklin
- Bathori's reign was not, however, free from libelous attacks on the Jews.
- Extract from : « History of the Jews, Vol. IV (of VI) » by Heinrich Graetz
- Again the country newspapers were filled with libelous paragraphs.
- Extract from : « James Fenimore Cooper » by Thomas R. Lounsbury
- Before you started that song, you dreamed things about the Martian Development Corporation that were libelous!
- Extract from : « Star Performer » by Robert J. Shea
- The alleged oath is scurrilous, wicked and libelous and must be the invention of an impious and venomous mind.
- Extract from : « The Modern Ku Klux Klan » by Henry Peck Fry
- It is not half so libelous as that of the Commercial which appeared four days before, and which has been given in these pages.
- Extract from : « Southern Horrors » by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- Yet this libelous production was reprinted as late as Eighteen Hundred Ninety.
- Extract from : « Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) » by Elbert Hubbard
- Who was the libelous wretch who said that the flowers of California had no perfume and the birds there had no song?
- Extract from : « Roughing it De Luxe » by Irvin S. Cobb
- In his youth he was suspended from college, and when he was a very old man he was fined $5,000 for writing a libelous article.
- Extract from : « Stories of Authors, British and American » by Edwin Watts Chubb
Antonyms for libelous
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