libel
libelling
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present participleof libel.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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In 1992, some of the subjects of “Boys of Zinc,” along with an organization representing the mothers of soldiers killed in the war, sued Alexievich for libelling the Soviet military.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 26, 2015
I feel it’s happening already, that the people who say, ‘He’s lying, he’s plagiarising, he’s libelling us’, will end up having more importance than my own research, my own attempts to investigate how things work.”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2015
Her second marriage ended in divorce within a year, and she had to settle out of court with her first husband's family over accusations that she was libelling them in her act.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2012
In 2010, it paid five-figure damages to Sheryl Gascoigne for libelling her over her relationship with her former husband.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2011
Interested outsiders may glory in libelling Congress, but why should its own members?
From American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Alexander Johnston
