libel

A countercharge of libel was made by the opposing counsel.

a libel calculated to injure the company's reputation.

a libel trial is in large parts intensely soporific.

He wrote a libel against her character.

The jury awarded libel damages of ￡100,000.

they have been living on a knife-edge since his libel action.

The cost of defending the libel action almost bankrupted the small magazine.

Or when must he laugh, so as to be secure from being taken up as a libeler?

aspersion, calumny, defame, denigrate, discredit, libel, malign, slander, slur, stigmatise, traduce, vilify.

The ensuing publicity caused the entertainer to regret having sued the newspaper for libeling his character. See also Synonyms at sinister

Digital technology makes it easy to disseminate libel widely and anonymously.

Well, there are obviously several laws in Germany regulating speech including libel and defamation.

The wantonly libeled men had thus become creditors of the libeler!

Ressa was found guilty last year of libel and sentenced to jail.

Other laws recriminalise libel and create a blacklist of (loosely defined) offensive websites.

In Britain, he could take her to court for libel, saying bad things about him.

Libel law, by contrast, badly needs reform.

Two sorts of legal reform are suggested, on privacy and libel.

Thanks to stringent libel laws, critics of the government could easily be hit with devastating lawsuits.

Donald Trump has launched a libel action against CNN, accusing the US broadcaster of comparing him to Hitler.