The word 'libellous' is correct and usable in written English
It is an adjective that means containing or constituting libel, which is a false statement that harms someone's reputation. Example: The newspaper article was deemed libellous by the subject of the story, who promptly filed a lawsuit against the publication.
In some countries, particularly Great Britain, the law of libel presents insuperable problems to novelists who, innocent of libellous intent, are nevertheless sometimes charged with defamation by persons who claim to be the models for characters in works of fiction.
He achieved only two important reforms, steering through Parliament a resolution pledging it to abolish the slave trade speedily and, in the 1792 Libel Act, restoring to juries their right to decide not merely whether an allegedly libellous article had, in fact, been published but also what constituted libel in any given case and whether or not a defendant was guilty of it.
Then they commandeered the necessary materials and a marker pen to create bright placards bearing slogans about Sir Philip and his tax responsibilities – material too libellous to repeat here.
Last November the Tory party chairman used legal threats to force a local constituent and ex-Labour councillor to delete an allegedly libellous post on a Facebook group about his use of the pseudonym and replace it with an apology that explicitly states that he was not using the Michael Green pseudonym when he was an MP.
"The council took legal action in the Mr Monkey blog case because it has a duty of care to protect its officials from the kind of intimidation and harassment caused by this malicious and libellous blog," a spokeswoman said.
This, apparently, was at the behest of the Californian Court, which had granted an order to South Tyneside council in its bid to discover who was behind what it called the "malicious and libellous" Mr Monkey blog and related social media accounts.
One NASA spokesperson, speaking "personally", comments that "to say that senior officials ignored safety warnings...I hesitate to use the word libellous or slanderous, but that really does offend us".The problem is that in any endeavour of this scale and complexity, there will be differences of opinion over safety risks.
And as Floyd Abrams, an American lawyer and free-speech defender, notes, a book publisher, for example, will still be nervous about an author who has written a "libellous book .Mr Stephens, the London lawyer, is taking a case to the European Court of Human Rights, where he hopes to persuade judges that the size of English libel damages is disproportionate.
Sometimes the plaintiffs are dissidents, complaining about libellous attacks on them by state-friendly foreign media; a lawsuit in London may be their only chance of redress.Yet some cases are still startling.
He has defied Mr Medvedev, promising to sue libellous reporters.
In April 2003, a Milan court found that the allegations published in an article in Corriere della Serra were seriously libellous.
