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Chris -- 2025-05-10
There are 39 ghits for ‘labelous’, some deliberate wordplay but others, seemingly, not. The two are homophones for some English speakers which might explain some usage, but having looked at all the examples I’m beginning to suspect there may be a genuine need for this new variant.
50 Airsicknessbag: Calling other people terrorist and/or taleban sympathizers is highly offensive, labelous and slanderous. Watch your mouth, even a public …
www.airliners.net/discussions/non_aviat … in/163465/ – 161k – Supplemental Result – Cached
... you are prohibited from using the site to post or transmit any infringing, threatening, false, misleading, abusive, harassing, labelous, defamatory, ...
www.partykingz.com/user/copyright.php – 13k – Supplemental Result – Cached
inflamatory and labelous phrases regarding our Eritrean fathers and forefathers, who by the way at that time were concerned more about finding …
www.ephrem.org/~ephrem/archives/1997/may/0349.html – 4k – Supplemental Result – Cached
We may differ on certain views but we certainly don’t start throwing nasty and labelous (not libelous) words at one another. ...
www.leonardcohenforum.com/viewtopic.php … 37d0529bdf – 97k – Supplemental Result – Cached
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