libel | (noun) a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person | - |
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(noun) the written statement of a plaintiff explaining the cause of action (the defamation) and any relief he seeks | - |
(verb) print slanderous statements against | - |
libeler | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, maligner, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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libellous | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libelous, slanderous |
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libelous | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, slanderous |
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liberal | (adjective) tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition | - |
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(adjective) showing or characterized by broad-mindedness | Synonyms: broad, large-minded, tolerant |
(adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, openhanded |
(adjective) not literal | Synonyms: free, loose |
(adjective) having political or social views favoring reform and progress | - |
(noun) a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties | Synonyms: liberalist, progressive |
(noun) a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets | - |
liberalisation | (noun) the act of making less strict | Synonyms: liberalization, relaxation |
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liberalise | (verb) make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules | Synonyms: liberalize |
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(verb) become more liberal | Synonyms: liberalize |
liberalism | (noun) a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution | - |
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(noun) an economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market | - |
liberalist | (noun) a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties | Synonyms: liberal, progressive |
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liberalistic | (adjective) having or demonstrating belief in the essential goodness of man and the autonomy of the individual; favoring civil and political liberties, government by law with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority | - |
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liberality | (noun) the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament | Synonyms: liberalness |
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(noun) an inclination to favor progress and individual freedom | Synonyms: liberalness |
liberalization | (noun) the act of making less strict | Synonyms: liberalisation, relaxation |
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liberalize | (verb) make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules | Synonyms: liberalise |
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(verb) become more liberal | Synonyms: liberalise |
liberally | (adverb) freely in a nonliteral manner | - |
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(adverb) in a generous manner | Synonyms: generously, munificently |
liberalness | (noun) the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament | Synonyms: liberality |
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(noun) an inclination to favor progress and individual freedom | Synonyms: liberality |
liberate | (verb) release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition | Synonyms: free, release |
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(verb) grant freedom to | Synonyms: set free |
(verb) give equal rights to; of women and minorities | Synonyms: emancipate |
(verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, loose, release, unloose, unloosen |
liberated | (adjective) free from traditional social restraints | Synonyms: emancipated |
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(adjective) (of a gas e.g.) released from chemical combination | - |
liberation | (noun) the attempt to achieve equal rights or status | - |
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(noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, release, sack, sacking |
(noun) the act of liberating someone or something | Synonyms: freeing, release |
liberator | (noun) someone who releases people from captivity or bondage | - |
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libertarian | (noun) someone who believes the doctrine of free will | - |
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(noun) an advocate of libertarianism | - |
libertarianism | (noun) an ideological belief in freedom of thought, speech and action | - |
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libertine | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, profligate, riotous |
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(noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | Synonyms: debauchee, rounder |
libertinism | (noun) A lifestyle or pattern of behavior characterized by self-indulgence and lack of restraint, especially one involving sexual promiscuity and rejection of religious or other moral authority. | - |
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liberty | (noun) an act of undue intimacy | Synonyms: familiarity, impropriety, indecorum |
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(noun) immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence | Synonyms: autonomy |
(noun) freedom of choice | - |
(noun) personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression | - |
(noun) leave granted to a sailor or naval officer | Synonyms: shore leave |