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• s  (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign

• My news bureau has sent me a clipping from your paper of April 21 containing a libellous statement about me; saying, "He (I) attracted no little attention by running amuck and .

• calumniatory
• calumnious
• defamatory
• denigrative
• denigrating
• denigratory
• libelous
• slanderous

Quotes

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• Paul Staines in BBC News
  The e-mails are intended to be anonymous smears, they are obscene in cases, and would impossible for a newspaper to publish. They're libellous and they're untrue,Mr Staines told the BBC. "In the e-mails, Damian McBride admits to using...
• Brian Mulroney in Toronto Star
  In a statement issued late Monday, Mulroney called the accusations against him "false and horrendously libellous."
• Pete Doherty in Independent
  Insisting that he was no longer taking drugs, Mr Doherty said: "The only drugs I had on me were prescription drugs in my implant, but it had gone septic and it's spewing them out. Speaking for myself, I have been clean on this tour. It's libellous...