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libellous

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The publisher described critical comments towards the author as "baseless and libellous".

From BBC Apr. 4, 2024

The Committee queried France about "allegations of online libellous messages and threats, including from the accounts of two police trade unions, against Ms. Assa Traoré, following her cooperation with the Committee," the report said.

From Reuters Sep. 19, 2023

In the latest, the DUP say its South Down candidate Diane Forsythe had been the victim of "a libellous and malicious campaign".

From BBC May 4, 2022

When Times reporters and editors are working on a story that they believe is controversial or potentially libellous or potentially explosive, where do you come into the process, and how does that work?

From The New Yorker Mar. 14, 2019

She knows very well that I will never forgive her for having printed a lot of libellous folly about a certain friend of mine.

From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar