Word "LIBEL" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
print slanderous statements against
Examples:
The newspaper was accused of libeling him

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
the written statement of a plaintiff explaining the cause of action (the defamation) and any relief he seeks

Crossword Clues for LIBEL

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Defamation made in print Puzzler Backwords 25 Aug 2025
Published false statement
Defame in print LA Times Daily 15 Jul 2025
Defame falsely (5) Mirror Classic 28 Jun 2025
Defame, in a way Thomas Joseph 23 Jun 2025
Defame in print The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 07 Jun 2025
Actionable statement
Smear in writing?
Written defamation New York Times 31 Mar 2025
Defamation made in print Puzzler Backwords 28 Mar 2025
Crime in print
Defamatory writing Mirror Tea Time 07 Mar 2025
It's a crime for one to be involved in a couple of quid (5)
Defamation of the Spanish after liberation (5) Puzzler Cryptic 16 Feb 2025
Two less liberal examples of defamation (5)
Slander in print Eugene Sheffer 23 Jan 2025
Slander in print Eugene Sheffer 17 Jan 2025
Defame in print Commuter 15 Jan 2025
Maybe I'll be blamed (5)
Bill has a point! It's written defamation, you know!
Defame in print Commuter 07 Dec 2024
Liable, after a loss, to be responsible for defamation (5)
Accusation in glib eloquent fashion (5)
Slander USA Today 02 Nov 2024
Slander and bile about student (5)
Be ill, perhaps, due to defamation (5)
Smear with ink? The Sun Two Speed 03 Oct 2024
Actionable words The Sun Two Speed 03 Oct 2024
Publisher's booboo
Falsehoods in print
Because of a written accusation Bill is forced to go East
A defamatory statement published in written form (5)
Defame, in a way Thomas Joseph 31 Jul 2024
Written defamation The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 28 Jul 2024
Tort in print Newsday 28 Jul 2024
Defamation in writing The Telegraph Mini 28 Jul 2024
Defamation made in print (5) Puzzler Backwords 19 Jul 2024
Defamatory statement The Telegraph Mini 15 Jul 2024
Written accusation
Everyman is improperly described by two lines making damaging accusation (5)
Traduce or malign
Smear with 18?
I'll be upset by defamation (5)
In law, a written defamation of character (5)
Defamation of the Spanish after liberation (5) Puzzler Cryptic 09 Jun 2024
Written defamation(5)
False and defamatory statement made in writing or other permanent form (5)
Tailor billed off-cut for suit material (5)
Publish a smear
Be ill, perhaps, due to transgression (5)
Wrong use of words (5)
Malign fiction including book line (5)
Defamation (5) Puzzler 11 Apr 2024
New bill about ultimate justice, a legal consideration (5)
To the Spanish, a political label is something illegal! (5)
Defamatory written statement (5)
Defamatory comments in print The Guardian Quick 07 Feb 2024
Malign in print Newsday 31 Jan 2024
Published slander (5) Puzzler 25 Jan 2024
Defamation Mirror Quick 13 Jan 2024
Student bile turned into slander Mirror Cryptic 13 Jan 2024
Defame in print Newsday 08 Jan 2024
Defamatory writing Mirror Tea Time 08 Jan 2024
Written slander Puzzler Backwords 25 Dec 2023
Legally responsible | Torts topic | Subject of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
Tabloid's alleged crime
Actionable words Wall Street Journal 16 Sep 2023
Defame in print Thomas Joseph 02 Sep 2023
Defame, in a way Thomas Joseph 29 Aug 2023
Insult in print Premier Sunday 23 Jul 2023
Written defamation The Times Concise 14 Jun 2023
Written defamation Universal 18 Apr 2023
Scandal I believe is somewhat defamatory ... The Guardian Cryptic 20 Mar 2023
Print smear? Universal 07 Mar 2023
Actionable article Wall Street Journal 21 Feb 2023
Defamation in print USA Today 31 Jan 2023
Defamatory writing Newsday 29 Jan 2023
Defame in print LA Times Daily 08 Jan 2023
Type of tort Newsday 25 Dec 2022
Smear in the newspaper Wall Street Journal 08 Dec 2022
Print issue? New York Times 04 Dec 2022
Defamatory text Thomas Joseph 03 Dec 2022
Written defamation Newsday 13 Nov 2022
Malign in print Newsday 11 Sep 2022
Defamatory writing Newsday 04 Sep 2022
Defamation The Guardian Quick 30 Aug 2022
Smear with ink? LA Times Daily 29 Jul 2022
Defame Wall Street Journal 19 Jul 2022
Defame in print Wall Street Journal 29 Jun 2022
Bad words? Universal 30 Apr 2022
Defamatory writing Newsday 27 Feb 2022
Slander's cousin
Slanderous statements in print Irish Times Simplex 26 Jan 2022
Defamation, I'll be damned
Some smears New York Times 17 Dec 2021
Actionable words LA Times Daily 09 Sep 2021
Actionable words The Washington Post 09 Sep 2021
Defamatory text Thomas Joseph 31 Aug 2021
Publication of defamatory matter The Guardian Speedy 06 Jun 2021
Tortious material Newsday 02 May 2021
Cause for a lawsuit Wall Street Journal 12 Apr 2021
Defame in print, say
Defame The Guardian Speedy 28 Mar 2021
Defame in print LA Times Daily 01 Mar 2021
Defame in print The Washington Post 01 Mar 2021
Party ends in state trial for defamation The Sun Two Speed 25 Feb 2021
Actionable words The Sun Two Speed 25 Feb 2021
Particular type of 1 Across Newsday 23 Jan 2021
Malicious defamation Universal 17 Jan 2021
Written defamation The Times Concise 22 Dec 2020
Focus of some celebrity suits New York Times 12 Dec 2020
Defamatory text Thomas Joseph 01 Dec 2020
Written defamation USA Today 26 Nov 2020
Smear with ink? The Washington Post 03 Nov 2020
Smear with ink? LA Times Daily 03 Nov 2020
Tort class topic Newsday 18 Oct 2020
Suit material The Washington Post 11 Oct 2020
Suit material LA Times Daily 11 Oct 2020
Malign in print Newsday 10 Sep 2020
Writing that can get you in trouble New York Times 28 Jul 2020
Defamation in print USA Today 11 Jul 2020
Defamation in a paper Universal 04 May 2020
Tort in print Newsday 24 Apr 2020
Defamation of character The Guardian Speedy 19 Apr 2020
Put down in print New York Times 15 Mar 2020
Defame, in a way Thomas Joseph 01 Feb 2020
Liberation ends in state trial for defamation The Sun Two Speed 29 Oct 2019
Defamation in print Universal 28 Sep 2019
Form of defamation New York Times 04 Sep 2019
Slander's counterpart Newsday 28 Aug 2019
Defame in print New York Times 19 Aug 2019
Defamation The Telegraph Quick 17 Aug 2019
Smear in print New York Times 04 Aug 2019
Vilify in print Premier Sunday 04 Aug 2019
What a tabloid may be sued for New York Times 04 Jun 2019
Insult in print Premier Sunday 05 May 2019
Defame in print Wall Street Journal 29 Apr 2019
Media lawyer's specialty New York Times 17 Apr 2019
Slander in print Eugene Sheffer 15 Mar 2019
Defamation in print The Washington Post 28 Feb 2019
Defamation in print LA Times Daily 28 Feb 2019
Defamatory writing Wall Street Journal 02 Jan 2019
What a tabloid may be sued for
Form of defamation
Media lawyer's specialty
Defamatory writing
Defame in print
Defamation in print
Defame in print
Defamation in print
Smear in print
Written defamation The Telegraph Quick 04 Sep 2018
Slander kin Universal 23 Jul 2018
Smear in print Wall Street Journal 23 Jul 2018
Defame in print
Defame in print Thomas Joseph 26 Feb 2018
Smear in print
Slander kin
Actionable words The Guardian Speedy 31 Dec 2017
Publisher's concern New York Times 29 Dec 2017
Written assault on one's reputation USA Today 20 Nov 2017
Ultimately, vitriol and bile stirred up calumny
Tortious writing Newsday 14 Jul 2017
'Some alcohol!' I belligerently slur The Telegraph Cryptic 27 Jun 2017
Defame in print USA Today 17 Jun 2017
Defame in print Universal 26 May 2017
Defame The Telegraph Quick 10 May 2017
Torts class subject Newsday 28 Apr 2017
Defamation The Guardian Quick 14 Apr 2017
False statement about British pound giving offence The Telegraph Cryptic 26 Mar 2017
Tabloid issue New York Times 29 Jan 2017
Publisher's concern
Written assault on one's reputation
Defame in print
Defame in print
Tabloid issue
Printed defamation New York Times 21 Nov 2016
Slander relative Universal 29 Aug 2016
Slanderous statements in print Irish Times Simplex 27 Aug 2016
Smear in print The Washington Post 22 Jul 2016
Fact-checking can help avoid it LA Times Daily 28 Feb 2016
Malign in print USA Today 20 Feb 2016
Printed defamation
Slander relative
Vilify in print The Washington Post 09 Dec 2015
Defamatory text LA Times Daily 20 Aug 2015
Defame in writing Newsday 17 Mar 2015
Large degree of noise obscuring December's false report The Times Cryptic 16 Jan 2015
Generous to let artist escape for defamation
Vilify in print
Defame in writing
Defamatory text
Defamatory writing
Type of tort
Defame in print
Put down in writing
Defamatory writing
Material for a suit?
Material for a then-record £8,000 Liberace suit in 1959
Reputation wrecker
Defamatory text
Actionable words
Suit material
Printing error?
Smear in print
Insult in print
Print falsehoods about
Printing error?
Defamatory text
Smear in ink
Smearing in ink?
Defamatory text
Put down in writing?
Actionable words
Put down in writing?
Defame in print
Attack in print
What tabloids are often sued for
Defame in writing
Defame, in a way
Written defamation
Defamation in writing
Slander's kin
Suit material?
Sort of tort
Publishing crime
It concerns write wrongs?
Actionable words
Publishing crime
Defame in print
Defame in print
Smear on the page
Printed defamation
Defamation in print
What Wilde sued the marquess of Queensberry for
Malign in print
Absence of Malice topic
Defamation
Character assassination in print
Written smear
Tabloid lawyer's worry
Defamation
Defamatory text
Reputation wrecker
Put down in writing?
Defame in writing
Defamatory words
Suit material
Bad press?
Reason to sue a publisher
A form of defamation
Slander counterpart
Media lawyer's concern
Slander's cousin
Defamatory words
Defamation
Charge against a rag, maybe
Character assassination
Defame, in a way
Reason for a suit
Reason for a suit
Defame
Defame in print
Malign in print
Defame
Tort type
Tort type
Kind of suit found in a courtroom
Defamation in print
Malign in a magazine
Defame in print
Write wrongs
Media law topic
Form of defamation
Kind of suit
Kind of suit
Defame in print
Slander
Malign in print
Give a bad name
Reputation ruiner
Slander's well-read cousin?
Put down in writing?
Type of suit
Drag through the mud
Put down in print
Media lawyer's subject
Kind of suit
Defamatory words
Bad writing?
Calumny's kin
Defame
Give a bad name?
Defamation in writing
Kind of law
Media lawyer's concern
Actionable words
Defame
Defame
Written lies
Put down in writing
Slander relative
Defamatory statement
Written defamation
Malign in print
Subject of media law
Slander's counterpart
Newspaper no-no
Grounds for a suit
Kind of suit
Defame
Defame in writing
Cousin of slander
Subject of media law
Damage a reputation
Smear
Defame
Malign
Freedom-of-speech limit
Cause for a suit
Nizer subject
Slander's cousin
Printed slander
Calumny
Slander
Cause for a lawsuit
Cause of a suit
Defame in a way
Malign in print
A tort or a crime.
Grounds for legal action.
Defamation.
Expose to scorn.
Defame.
Slander.
Injury to one's reputation.
Traduce.
Suitworthy scandal.
Lawyer's concern.
Calumny.
Grounds for a suit.
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