<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>Law.</li><li>defamation by written, printed, or broadcast words or pictures: Compare slander.</li><li>Intentionally or knowingly posting content that constitutes libel is prohibited.</li><li>the act or crime of publishing or broadcasting a defamatory statement: The author was convicted of libel and sentenced to a yearlong jail term.</li><li>a formal written declaration or statement, as one containing the allegations of a plaintiff or the grounds of a charge.</li><li>anything that is defamatory or that maliciously or damagingly misrepresents: He blames me for his getting kicked out of school, so he spread this libel against me in revenge.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) labeled, libeling or (especially British) libelled, libelling.</li><li>to publish or broadcast a libel against: The journalist received a suspended three-year prison sentence for allegedly libeling the president in an online article.</li><li>to misrepresent damagingly: So it's just fine to smear and libel the writer, but it's not okay to call someone out for doing so?</li><li>to institute suit against by a libel, as in an admiralty court.</li></ul>