libellous

[US]/ˈlaɪbɵləs/
[UK]/'laɪbələs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. que contiene información falsa que es perjudicial y dañina para la reputación de alguien.

Example Sentences

a libellous newspaper story.

una noticia de prensa difamatoria

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”.

Y como señala Floyd Abrams, un abogado y defensor de la libertad de expresión estadounidense, un editor de libros, por ejemplo, seguirá estando nervioso por un autor que ha escrito un “libro difamatorio”.

Real-world Examples

'Oh, that! ' he said; and told her about Benny Skoll, and the Watchman, and Williams rebuking virtue. And so they were gay after all over their Sunday supper, with Marta supplying libellous stories of the Watchman's theatre critic.

“¡Oh, eso!”, dijo; y le contó sobre Benny Skoll, y el Vigilante, y Williams reprendiendo la virtud. Y así, después de todo, estuvieron alegres durante su cena dominical, con Marta proporcionando historias difamatorias del crítico teatral del Vigilante.

Source: A handsome face.

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