Sentence examples for be a gross libel from inspiring English sources

This may be a gross libel, but most London-based news managers assumed that Liverpool's year as European capital of culture would be a great scouse cock-up.

This proved to be a gross understatement.

"That could be a gross overreaction.

She characterized the articles that had appeared in the "Pall Mall Gazette" as a gross libel implying that she was a deliberate and systematic liar in connection with the anti-vivisection propaganda to which she had devoted her life.

Lord Hewart, Chief Justice, in approving of the terms of the out-of-court settlement, said that the libel was a "gross outrage".

It was a gross injustice.

That is a gross overstatement.

This is a gross simplification.

Anything else is a gross violation.

That's a gross generalisation, of course.

This is a gross exaggeration.