5 Letter Words starting with LIB

• a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation

Synonyms: defamation, defamation of character, character assassination, calumny, misrepresentation, scandalmongering

• (in admiralty and ecclesiastical law) a plaintiff's written declaration

• defame (someone) by publishing a libel

Synonyms: defame, malign, slander, give someone a bad name, blacken someone's name, sully someone's reputation, speak ill/evil of, write false reports about, traduce, smear, cast aspersions on, fling mud at, drag someone's name through the mud/mire, besmirch, tarnish, taint, do a hatchet job on, tell lies about, spread tales about, spread scandal about, stain, vilify, calumniate, denigrate, disparage, run down, derogate, stigmatize, discredit, slight

• (in admiralty and ecclesiastical law) bring a suit against