libelist

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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
  • Jimbo is a storyteller and clown with a message of love, tolerance and acceptance.
    Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • For Showalter, whose past work has rarely ventured this far into fear, the challenge will be sustaining a coherent tone without losing the emotional highs and lows that define Hoover as a storyteller.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 27 Apr. 2026
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“Libelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/libelist. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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