(n.) A brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.
(n.) Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.
(n.) A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law.
(n.) The crime of issuing a malicious defamatory publication.
(n.) A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of his cause of action, and of the relief he seeks.
(v. t.) To defame, or expose to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, by a writing, picture, sign, etc.; to lampoon.
(v. t.) To proceed against by filing a libel, particularly against a ship or goods.
(v. i.) To spread defamation, written or printed; -- with against.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brett added companies should have to prove some financial damage – or the potential of financial damage – before they are allowed to launch a libel case.
(2) First, there are major vested interests, such as large corporations, foreign billionaires and libel lawyers, who will attempt to scupper reform.
(3) "In recent years, though, the increased threat of costly libel actions has begun to have a chilling effect on scientific and academic debate and investigative journalism."
(4) Aside from the fact that it is intemperate and inaccurate, it is also libelous.
(5) And there are plenty who think that, as our libel laws are cleaned up, smart lawyers are switching horses to privacy.
(6) The case, which had been going on for four years, became a cause celebre, one of a number that were used to spearhead a campaign for change to the libel laws by campaigners for freedom of speech.
(7) He stressed that the sister-in-law and her husband were not only accused of circulating libellously untrue stories but also of harassment of the wealthy financier.
(8) Polonsky is hoping to sue Lebedev for libel and is seeking damages for defamation, his lawyer Andrew Stephenson has said.
(9) Thousands who have confronted the possibility of a libel action have self-censored or backed down.
(10) He added that London remained the "libel capital of the world – the place where the rich and dodgy flock to keep their reputations intact".
(11) Newspapers have been lobbying hard to stave off a Leveson law of any kind, arguing that the press is already subject to laws ranging from libel to data protection and computer misuse acts to guard against illegal activities.
(12) Instead, NMT sued Wilmshurst in London, which has become the libel capital of the world.
(13) Priority has been given to applying sticking-plasters to libel law when urgent surgery is needed to regulate a tabloid newspaper industry that has been shown to have no regard for privacy or the criminal law.
(14) But Miller, in continuing to urge publishers to be "recognised" by the charter did refer to the "incentives", meaning a protection from the payment of legal costs for libel claimants (even if unsuccessful) and the imposition of exemplary damages (which would be very doubtful anyway).
(15) The inquiry originally looked as if it would be confined to the issue of "libel tourism", but it seems officials believed it would not be possible to restrict the inquiry in this way.
(16) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
(17) The former Conservative chief whip Andrew Mitchell was a Jekyll and Hyde character who employed a mixture of charm and menace, his libel trial against the Sun newspaper over the Plebgate affair heard.
(18) In a letter to Hodge on Tuesday, Duncan also claimed that Hodge, the MP for Barking, had made “undoubtedly libellous assertions” about the tax affairs of the bank’s chief executive Stuart Gulliver.
(19) The libel laws have been long been considered to restrict free speech.
(20) What about the chilling effects of libel tourism and a system that both adds cost to stories and stifles freedom of expression?
Traduce
Definition:
(v. t.) To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants.
(v. t.) To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works.
(v. t.) To increase or distribute by propagation.
(v. t.) To draw away; to seduce.
(v. t.) To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of.
(v. t.) To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame.
Example Sentences:
(1) Look further and you see people in faked approximations of designer logos – that they've been traduced doesn't detract from their meaning; it gives them a new story.
(2) The most powerful in the land had helped to perpetuate a media culture that allowed decent people to be traduced (there's a word your rarely hear in real life) "out of casual malice, for money, for spite, for sport.
(3) Yet, from his reaction, which was in the familiar non-apology apology of “I am sorry if I have caused offence, I should never have said such a thing in front of journalists”, it appears that he thinks it is he who has been in some way traduced, confounded by that dratted tendency of women not to get the joke.
(4) Frequently, this involves traducing the messenger as much as examining the message.
(5) It is depressing to hear union leaders deliberately misrepresent the government's reforms and traduce Michael Gove, whose respect for teaching and passion for improving the lot of the most disadvantaged children should be an inspiration to everyone involved in education.
(6) The results are traduced by different colours or by coloured ligns.
(7) Greece's determination in this World Cup was a thing to behold and, their reputation unfairly traduced, they brought a fair bit of quick-breaking flair to the table too.
(8) I really value the mateship that Peter O'Neill has shown to Australia on this.” The following day he said: “The co-operation that we are getting from PNG is a real act of mateship on their part and I’m really thrilled by it.” It’s a sort of Orwellian parallel reality: people held in dreadful conditions, two government conspiring to traduce their rights and suppress as much information as they can, and no one having the slightest clue about the future of people who really did flee persecution – while Abbott declares it’s been “a very successful visit”.
(9) I’m dismayed, frankly, because, with all the hard work that we put into trying to reform the fisheries industry and trying to get sustainable fishing back on the agenda, and trying to save fish stocks from their inevitable collapse they were heading towards, all that work is being traduced.” Richard Lochhead, the former Scottish fisheries minister who represents Moray, north-east Scotland, said: “Our fishermen will be gobsmacked by the irony of [Michael] Gove’s belated concerns for the fishing industry, given it was the Tories that negotiated such a poor deal for our fishermen in the first place while other nations got better deals.
(10) And the essence of this is that there must be a cheap, easy, independent and reliable arbitration process to force speedy prominent corrections on newspapers, and deliver ample compensation in a timely fashion to those who have been traduced.
(11) His young starting strike force of Ji Dong-won and Connor Wickham were subjected to the lion's share of the opprobrium in the wake of their side's reverse and will have been dismayed by the manner in which their work rate, character and intelligence were traduced.
(12) Struan Stevenson , a Tory MEP for Scotland from 1999 to 2014 and a former chair of the European parliament’s fisheries committee, said Michael Gove was guilty of “traducing” the EU and of “trotting out an emotional story as propaganda” to back the leave campaign.
(13) Not content with simply banning the film in its own country, the Iranian government complained to Unesco that it traduced Iran’s national dignity.
(14) For Coetzee, the result reflected a debasement of Britain’s political culture: the traducing, with media complicity, of rational discourse by a leave campaign that targeted the very idea of factual argument.
(15) Visibly agitated by the idea that the current system of self-regulation can continue, he adds: "Many people say celebrities live by publicity and if they get the wrong sort they can't be entirely surprised, but what one is concerned by is when innocent people are traduced by the media.
(16) But instead he was suspended and the home secretary has spent two days basically traducing him and damning him."
(17) The Sun 's coverage has been hostile ever since, offering unqualified support for British troops while traducing their political masters.
(18) Like George Orwell, he had a deep love of England and the English, believing that our green and pleasant land was being traduced by a petty-minded army of bureaucrats.
(19) And it is about whether this house will be supine when its members phones are hacked, or about whether it will take action when the democratic right of MPs to do their job without illegal let, hindrance or interception has been traduced.
(20) There was nothing improper about meeting a demand by an employer to secure their leave.” Tim Dutton QC, for the SRA, said British troops involved in the Battle of Danny Boy had “their reputations traduced” at a press conference given by Day in 2008 at which the allegations were first made in public.