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  • verb UK Simple past tense and past participle of libel.

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Examples

  • But those who raise valid public and child health safety concerns are routinely ´label libelled´ as

    American Chronicle American Chronicle 2010

  • The words 'maliciously attacked' in bold above have been replaced by 'libelled'.

    Simon Singh wins the right to a full appeal: UPDATED TK 2009

  • The words 'maliciously attacked' in bold above have been replaced by 'libelled'.

    Archive 2009-10-01 TK 2009

  • When I got back to Sydney, the crew, and some of the tradesmen who'd extended me credit, libelled the schooner.

    A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL 2010

  • I can provfide copies of fake Lib Dem Focus leaflets delivered in 1999 in Cromer (North Norfolk), fake Labour leaflets delivered by the Tories in 2001 in North Norfolk and a leaflet that libelled Norman lamb in 2005 for which Iain Dale had to issue an apology.

    First poll in Norwich North Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • The headmaster of Sherborne, Alec's old school, was outraged and wrote to Alec in the trenches to say he had libelled the school.

    My life as a Waugh 2011

  • Some readers may be aware that the well-known science writer Simon Singh was recently judged to have libelled the Bristish Chiropractic Association (BCA).

    Archive 2009-06-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

  • Some readers may be aware that the well-known science writer Simon Singh was recently judged to have libelled the Bristish Chiropractic Association (BCA).

    Simon Singh and Mr Justice Eady Gordon McCabe 2009

  • How do I know if you own the ship even, or that the charter ain't busted long ago, or that you're being libelled ashore right now, or that you won't dump me on any old beach anywheres without a soo-markee of what's comin 'to me?

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • It all got nasty, with Mel claiming she had been libelled and refusing to give an inch.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

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