libel
n. 以文字损害名誉, 诽谤罪, 侮辱 v. 诽谤, 中伤, 损害名誉
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A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation.
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The act or tort of displaying such a statement publicly.
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Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.
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A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of their cause of action, and of the relief they seek.
可数 法律 不可数These provisions of law being in force, the steamer Rio Grande, owned, as was alleged, by persons in Mexico, being in the port of Mobile, in the Southern District of Alabama, certain materialmen, on the 26th of November, 1867, filed separate libels against her in the district court for the said district.
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A brief writing of any kind, especially a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.
可数 不可数a libel of forsaking [divorcement]
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To defame (someone), especially in a manner that meets the legal definition of libel.
谗谤
及物 法律He libelled her when he published that.
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To proceed against (goods, a ship, etc.) by filing a legal claim.
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From Middle English libel, from Old French libelle, from Latin libellus (“petition”, literally “booklet”). Doublet of libelle.
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