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  • verb Present participle of libel.

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Examples

  • Others in the McCain camp said that Obama's staffers are "libeling" their attorney, and lying about the discussion - that the two counsels were meeting on a separate topic entirely, and that there were no negotiations on public finance.

    CNN Political Ticker 2009

  • Others in the McCain camp said that Obama's staffers are "libeling" their attorney, and lying about the discussion - that the two counsels were meeting on a separate topic entirely, and that there were no negotiations on public finance.

    CNN Political Ticker 2009

  • Short of libeling the accusers as racist, Kennedy supporters reacted to this charge with much the same dumb fury Obama supporters would fifty years later.

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • So, while I share the view that the words and images we use do contribute to the culture in which we all live, there is a lesson for all of us in Ms. Palin's words: stop libeling each other!

    Brad Hirschfield: Palin's Charge of Blood Libel Plays the Jewish Card Brad Hirschfield 2011

  • Short of libeling the accusers as racist, Kennedy supporters reacted to this charge with much the same dumb fury Obama supporters would fifty years later.

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • I was saying that someone was libeling you, by putting unbearably stupid arguments in your mouth.

    Matthew Yglesias » Toy Drives Checking Immigration Status of Children 2009

  • Now that the names are public, anyone who wants to make specific misconduct allegations against any of them is free to do so provided there is actual evidence (libeling a practicing attorney is generally not a smart move).

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Andrew McCarthy Sticks to His Guns (And He May Be Pointing Them at You Next) 2010

  • Bravo allowed the cameras to run during Tareq's Lolly libeling, but here Cohen made up for it, pressing Tareq on the evidence -- a comment on someone's Facebook photo -- and calling it bogus.

    So over this: D.C. "Housewives" recap (Reunion, pt. 2, Oct. 21) The Reliable Source 2010

  • Bravo allowed the cameras to run during Tareq's Lolly libeling, but here Cohen made up for it, pressing Tareq on the evidence -- a comment on someone's Facebook photo -- and calling it bogus.

    So over this: D.C. "Housewives" recap (Reunion, pt. 2, Oct. 21) The Reliable Source 2010

  • Ordered to pay his share of $345,000 in damages for libeling Dutchess County prosecutor Steven Pagones, Sharpton refused to pay and still refuses to apologize.

    Len Levitt: The Resilient Rev Len Levitt 2010

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