Definitions for libelous

libelous li·bel·ous

Spelling: [lahy-buh-luh s]
IPA: /ˈlaɪ bə ləs/

Libelous is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in libelous (beillosu).

Definitions for libelous

adjective

  1. containing, constituting, or involving a libel; maliciously defamatory.

Origin of libelous

First recorded in 1610-20; libel + -ous

Examples for libelous

It is not half so libelous as that of the Commercial which appeared four days before, and which has been given in these pages.

In his youth he was suspended from college, and when he was a very old man he was fined $5,000 for writing a libelous article.

Before you started that song, you dreamed things about the Martian Development Corporation that were libelous!

The alleged oath is scurrilous, wicked and libelous and must be the invention of an impious and venomous mind.

Who was the libelous wretch who said that the flowers of California had no perfume and the birds there had no song?

Bathori's reign was not, however, free from libelous attacks on the Jews.

Would the editors of the Commune do anything about the base, libelous article?

No, indeed, slander and libelous talk are not necessary ingredients of gossip.

Yet this libelous production was reprinted as late as Eighteen Hundred Ninety.

Again the country newspapers were filled with libelous paragraphs.

Word Value for libelous
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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