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What is the adjective for libellously?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb libel which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

libelous
  1. (US) defamatory, libeling, referring to something that causes harm to someone's reputation especially with malice or disregard.
  2. (US) meeting the legal standards for libel.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. defamatory, slanderous, pejorative, scandalous, aspersive, injurious, backbiting, calumniatory, calumnious, contumelious, invidious, maligning, opprobrious, scurrilous, vilifying, vituperative, debasing, false, malicious, unfounded, untrue, sarcastic, libellous, derogatory, insulting, lying, mud-slinging, dirty, damaging, misrepresentative, vicious, aspersory, abusive, detractive, poisonous, disparaging, denigratory, traducing, detracting, libeling, prejudicial, libelling, gossiping, defaming, denigrating, scandalmongering, muckraking, maledictory, slurring, maledictive … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Soobzokov was suing a book publisher over what he charged were libelous accusations.”
      “Her father has said he will legally challenge his daughter's disparagers whose hateful comments could be labeled libelous.”
      “They use the example of stock message boards where people reveal all sorts of defaming and libelous content to try to move a stock.”
libellous
  1. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of libelous
  2. Synonyms:
      3. defamatory, disparaging, maligning, slanderous, vilifying, derogatory, aspersive, calumniatory, calumnious, denigratory, malicious, traducing, injurious, insulting, scurrilous, vituperative, false, misrepresentative, muckraking, slurring, smearing, untrue, mud-slinging, libelous, scandalous, abusive, pejorative, offensive, opprobrious, contumelious, damaging, derisive, detractive, vicious, lying, dirty, belittling, aspersory, contemptuous, scornful, disdainful, deprecatory, poisonous, slighting, uncomplimentary, critical, degrading, disrespectful, censorious, catty … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “It was conceded by the defendant that the impugned language used in the letter was libellous.”
      “In the name of press freedom and nationalism we deliberately wrote seditious and criminally libellous articles against colonial governments.”
      “The defendants denied the article was libellous and said even if it was, they were covered by a number of defences.”
libelled
  1. (Britain) simple past tense and past participle of libel
  2. Synonyms:
      3. defamed, slandered, maligned, vilified, denigrated, traduced, disparaged, smeared, calumniated, discredited, slurred, aspersed, blackened, besmirched, stigmatised, stigmatized, sullied, stained, tainted, derogated, tarnished, reviled, scandalised, scandalized, slighted, burlesqued, caricatured, bad-mouthed, spoke ill of, spoken ill of, ran down, run down, cast aspersions on, spoke evil of, spoken evil of, flung mud at, gave a black eye, given a black eye, gave a bad name, given a bad name, spread scandal about, tore down, torn down, did a hatchet job on, done a hatchet job on, told lies about, wrote false reports about, written false reports about, spread tales about, marked wrong … more
libelling
  1. present participle of libel
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