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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a libelous manner.

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  • The comment, she complains in a court filing, has libelously dashed her "hopes of establishing herself as a premier adult entertainer in Georgia."

    Lawsuits Fly Over Mean Online Reviews 2010

  • And they were mum when subsequent articles and books by Ross Gelbspan libelously labeled scientists who differed with Mr. Gore as stooges of the fossil-fuel industry.

    Think Progress » Drudge Falsely Smears Gore 2006

  • And they were mum when subsequent articles and books by Ross Gelbspan libelously labeled scientists who differed with Mr. Gore as stooges of the fossil-fuel industry.

    Alexander et al 2007 « Climate Audit 2007

  • I don†™ t know said show, but ever since the Pentagon has been gutted, from Shinseki all the way down to nameless clerks, since foreign agents were able to set up shop (e.g. Feith) to organize a war in their master†™ s (non-American, but Middle Eastern) interests, and the good name of true patriots like Zinni has been libelously drawn through the mud in the process, what did anyone really expect?

    Think Progress » BREAKING: Barber Cancels Ed Schultz’s Debut on Armed Forces Radio 2005

  • And they were mum when subsequent articles and books by Ross Gelbspan libelously labeled scientists who differed with Mr. Gore as stooges of the fossil-fuel industry.

    Hansen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past? « Climate Audit 2006

  • But the bonus reason for reading Luke's blog is so you can then read the libelously hilarious "Luke Ford Fan Blog."

    Luke Ford Interviews Ronald Bailey Steve Sailer 2005

  • But the bonus reason for reading Luke's blog is so you can then read the libelously hilarious "Luke Ford Fan Blog."

    Archive 2005-07-24 Steve Sailer 2005

  • I think I would scarcely mind if I were depicted as a person completely different from what I am, even libelously so.

    Maigret's Memoirs Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963

  • Hundreds of other beetles, most of them labeled libelously or scatologically, patterned the wall all around the room.

    Curtains for the editor Polsky, Thomas 1939

  • Raffles and Arsene Lupin, I should be "wanted" by the police, those good-natured, deferential beings so given to saluting and grinning, with whom, save for occasional episodes not unconnected with the speed laws, -- Dunny says libelously that my progress in an automobile resembles

    The Firefly of France Marion Polk Angellotti 1936

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