libelist

Definition of libelistnext

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Noun
  • Martinez called Mejia a shameless perjurer who became a government witness only after reviewing the evidence against him and realizing he was caught dead to rights for his own crimes.
    Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2024
  • Banks’s pathos matches that shown to Kennisha — a remarkable feat of storytelling that Just Mercy never achieves with its pathetic hillbilly perjurer (Tim Blake Nelson).
    Armond White, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020
Noun
  • Because the alcohol drives the storytellers toward vernacular expression, these pieces can seem more alive and authentic, more relatable, than big-budget, big-screen productions.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
  • Mallaby, a longtime financial journalist, is a nimble storyteller, and his portrait of one of the single-minded personalities plunging the world into an uncertain future is also an engaging drama of discovery.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
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“Libelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/libelist. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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