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libellous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective libellous has 1 sense
- libellous(s = adj.all) calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libelous, slanderous - (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign; Array Derived form noun libel1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
libellous, adj. containing or constituting a libel.
Derivative
libellously adv.
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