As to the libellous pamphlet itself, the clumsy nature of it was only too plain, for the King is no more like Mazarin than he is like the King of Ethiopia.
He shut himself up in his apartment, so as to be quite alone, and hastily perused the libellous pamphlet.
George Chalmers brought to the same press his libellous "Life of Pain.
Fourty-four numbers had appeared at the time of Bute's resignation, and although each number had contained matter more or less libellous no notice had been taken of them.
If a libellous letter concern a private person, he that receives it may conceal it in his pocket or burn it; but if it concern a public person, he ought to reveal it to some public officer or magistrate.
If the libellous pen of Martin Mar-prelate was a thorn to the rulers of the church, they had still more cause to take alarm at an overt measure of revolution which the discontented party began to effect about the year 1590.
These letters, there can be little doubt, were the work of Lefuel de Méricourt, the editor of the journal in question, a libellous scribe of the school of Pidansat de Mairobert.
The public, without waiting to think, or even to inquire after the truth, instantly selected as genuine the most false and the most flagrant of the fifty libellous narratives that were circulated of the transaction.
But Gifford never took any notice of these libellous attacks upon him.
I consider it black behaviour, sir, to come here and make these libellous and scandalous assertions about an officer and a gentleman.
That this change had taken place in Rome at an early period, is proved by the fact that libellous verses were forbidden by the laws of the Twelve Tables[10].
It was said in conversation that Mr. Panet was an excellent and most impartial Speaker, and it was a pity that he had suffered himself to have been connected with the seditious and libellous Canadien.
The attitude lately manifested both in St. Petersburg and the provinces against the Kontrabandisti, a libellous play written by an apostate Jew, Levin, will become more and more general.
Vasari’s assertion that these libellous pictures are by the hand of Andrea del Castagno arises from an anachronism.
In England, a member of the House of Commons may be expelled forlibellous matter.
Da Ponte precedes this account with a libellous narrative of Casanova's relations with the Marquise d'Urfe, even stating that Casanova stole from her the jewels stolen in turn by Costa, but, as M.
Libellous verses too were thrown into the contribution boxes, and warning and gloomy messages from the Quakers; and John Rogers, in derision of a pompous New London minister, threw in the insulting contribution of an old periwig.
They had differed over the adjustment of some church-matter and on the following Sunday the clergyman assigned to be sung the libellous and significant psalm.
It seems worse than forgery--worse than piracy; for instead of stealing from the defenceless dead poet, it foists upon him a spurious and degrading progeny; there is no word to express this tinkering libellous literary crime.
Punishment is inflicted with a view to future prevention or amendment 408 Penalty for abusive words--for libellous comedy.
Side-note: Astronomy must be taught, in order that the citizens may not assert libellous falsehoods respecting the heavenly bodies.
In particular they brought up a libel, or rather a complete digest of libellous matter, from the club called the Friends of the People.
He thus became an easy victim of the libellous Life of Paine, by George Chalmers, which had not been reprinted in America, and reproduced the statements of that work in a brief biographical sketch published in Philadelphia, 1796.
A law was passed, and a penalty enforced, forbidding any one to be branded in libellous verses.
That this change had taken place in Rome at an early period, is proved by the fact that libellous verses were forbidden by the laws of the Twelve Tables[17].
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "libellous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
