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What does libellous mean?

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Adjective
  1. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of libelous
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A much-experienced newspaper colleague excoriated me as grossly unfair, if not libellous.
The ruffian casual laughs at him, and sings funny and oftentimes libellous songs concerning him as he breaks stones or picks oakum.
The claimant cannot select apparently libellous statements if the passage taken as a whole is not defamatory.
Repeating someone else's libellous statement is just as bad as making the statement directly.
During a radio interview, Mr Waters said the newspaper spiked his column on the grounds the article was libellous and inaccurate.
In the name of press freedom and nationalism we deliberately wrote seditious and criminally libellous articles against colonial governments.

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