How to Use libel in a Sentence

libel

1 of 2 noun

• The newspaper was found guilty of libel.
• He sued the newspaper for libel.
• The newspaper's attorneys argued that the article was not a libel.
• The libel case was part of a series of problems for Depp.
  — Sharareh Drury, Billboard, 16 Aug. 2021
• The Times libeled Palin, so the Times deserves to lose her libel suit.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 6 Feb. 2022
• It's been 18 months since Depp lost his U.K. libel case.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 1 June 2022
• Sued for libel by the mayor’s 80-year-old niece, Profs.
  — Lawrence Douglas, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2021
• The libel case filed by his half-brother is dismissed by the court.
  — CNN, 14 Feb. 2022
• Depp and Heard took the stand in May over competing libel charges.
  — Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2022
• Johnny Depp lost a libel case against a British tabloid.
  — Ashley Shaffer, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2020
• The actress’ plea to dismiss the suit after Depp lost his libel case in the U.K. was denied.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 9 Apr. 2022
• The outing comes after Depp sued a British tabloid for libel.
  — Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 13 June 2018
• In a public filing in England, he was sued for libel based on the dossier.
  — NBC News, 7 Jan. 2018
• Correa sued them for libel, and both men were sentenced to 18 months in prison.
  — Diana Durán, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
• The loss of his libel case is a big blow to Depp and could cost him lucrative acting roles.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2020
• Her assets had been frozen as part of a libel case, one of 47 suits pending against her.
  — Nicholas Kulish, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
• The site claimed that Kweli could’ve sued them for libel, but the statute of limitations had passed last year.
  — Vulture, 9 Aug. 2022
• Doronin sued, alleging libel and defamation, and swaths of the ski town turned against him.
  — Chris Pomorski, Curbed, 17 Oct. 2022
• Robertson sued for libel, but later dropped the suit and agreed to pay McCloskey’s court costs.
  — Rebecca Trounson, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• His $50 million libel battle with Heard picked up in Virginia court the week of the film's release.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2022
• Those claims amounted to slander and libel, the lawsuit says.
  — Dustin Gardiner, azcentral, 15 June 2018
• The wives of two British soccer superstars are at the center of a libel case in London this month.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 16 May 2022
• The third friend, who is himself an ex-boyfriend of hers, sends a string of voice notes advising her about libel laws.
  — Hazlitt, 7 Feb. 2024
• If this is correct, then the rapper would be liable for libel.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2021
• In the countersuit, Depp was found guilty of one charge of libel and Heard was awarded $2 million.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• And since a libel case requires proof of falsity, their case was doomed.
  — Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 22 June 2017
• The couple wed in 1828, but a year later David was convicted of libel and spent six months in jail.
  — Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
• This is not unusual; in the US, libel, even for private figures, is hard to prove.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 7 June 2023
• Some who post may be sued for defamation, libel, or slander.
  — Gloria Allred, Marie Claire, 6 Feb. 2018
• Seven years later, the judge who had presided over the Kastner libel trial was one of the three judges in the trial of Adolf Eichmann.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023

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libel

2 of 2 verb

• The jury found that the article libeled him.
• The courts ruled O’Brien had not libeled him and he was not entitled to $5 billion as a result.
  — vanityfair.com, 9 Feb. 2017
• Just as the First Amendment’s protects free speech, but doesn’t give a license to people to libel others.
  — Andrés Oppenheimer, miamiherald, 26 Feb. 2018
• Gibson’s Bakery filed a lawsuit against the college in 2017, claiming the school and an administrator there hurt their business and libeled them.
  — Jane Morice | [e-mail], cleveland, 17 Nov. 2019
• The two ultimately went to trial because Irving felt libeled that Lipstadt called him a Holocaust denier in her book.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Mar. 2018
• Actor James Woods thinks the trooper should sue anyone who libeled him while perpetuating the lie and media analyst Mark Dice agrees.
  — Brian Flood, Fox News, 25 May 2018
• But then again, I and my family were not libeled as traitors, crooks, deviants, and imbeciles, and put in legal jeopardy for 22 months as the media and ex-Obama officials ginned up hoax after hoax.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019
• Gross was threatened with the loss of his Polish state honors and prosecution for ostensibly libelling the nation.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
• There’s no law against defaming, slandering or libeling the dead.
  — Danielle Bacher, Billboard, 3 Apr. 2019
• The virtues of a free press come under attack in another scene, in which a woman dumps a bucket of excrement over the head of a local official, claiming that she has been libeled by a local newspaper.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 11 May 2018
• According to the Chronicle-Telegram, the court found that the college had libeled the bakery and its owners, in addition to inflicting emotional distress on the owners.
  — Washington Post, 10 June 2019
• On top of causing emotional trauma, the suit claims, Goodlett's actions libeled the former students and damaged their reputations.
  — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 28 Sep. 2017
• Jace Richter, 18, who was released from the football team after the allegations against him went public, also asserts that he was defamed, slandered, libeled and portrayed in a false light, according to the suit filed in early December.
  — Katy Moeller, idahostatesman, 20 Dec. 2017
• The poll became public when it was submitted by Issa in an unsuccessful lawsuit alleging that Applegate attack ads libeled the incumbent.
  — Martin Wisckol, Orange County Register, 19 Mar. 2017
• The attorney said the website libels Sibley, interferes with the recruitment of businesses and new residents, and negatively affects property rights.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2018
• Instead, the jury unanimously determined that Oberlin College libeled the Gibsons.
  — Brian Pascus, CBS News, 27 June 2019
• Government officials, he observed, were public servants who remained accountable to the people and therefore could not be libeled for their performance in office.
  — Leonard W. Levy, Emergence of a Free Press, 1985
• And in Oklahoma last year, lawyers filed a class-action suit against a group supporting tort reform, saying they had libeled trial lawyers.
  — Judith Miller, New York Times, 11 June 1996
• The jury found that the article libeled him.
• The courts ruled O’Brien had not libeled him and he was not entitled to $5 billion as a result.
  — vanityfair.com, 9 Feb. 2017
• Just as the First Amendment’s protects free speech, but doesn’t give a license to people to libel others.
  — Andrés Oppenheimer, miamiherald, 26 Feb. 2018
• Gibson’s Bakery filed a lawsuit against the college in 2017, claiming the school and an administrator there hurt their business and libeled them.
  — Jane Morice | [e-mail], cleveland, 17 Nov. 2019
• The two ultimately went to trial because Irving felt libeled that Lipstadt called him a Holocaust denier in her book.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Mar. 2018
• Actor James Woods thinks the trooper should sue anyone who libeled him while perpetuating the lie and media analyst Mark Dice agrees.
  — Brian Flood, Fox News, 25 May 2018
• But then again, I and my family were not libeled as traitors, crooks, deviants, and imbeciles, and put in legal jeopardy for 22 months as the media and ex-Obama officials ginned up hoax after hoax.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019
• Gross was threatened with the loss of his Polish state honors and prosecution for ostensibly libelling the nation.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
• There’s no law against defaming, slandering or libeling the dead.
  — Danielle Bacher, Billboard, 3 Apr. 2019
• The virtues of a free press come under attack in another scene, in which a woman dumps a bucket of excrement over the head of a local official, claiming that she has been libeled by a local newspaper.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 11 May 2018
• According to the Chronicle-Telegram, the court found that the college had libeled the bakery and its owners, in addition to inflicting emotional distress on the owners.
  — Washington Post, 10 June 2019
• On top of causing emotional trauma, the suit claims, Goodlett's actions libeled the former students and damaged their reputations.
  — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 28 Sep. 2017

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