seditious
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A year after he lampooned a judge in a mocking poem, he had the misfortune of standing before him charged with seditious libel for a pamphlet satirizing the Church.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
Monday's ruling also found Lai guilty of publishing seditious material on Apple Daily under a separate colonial-era law.
From BBC • Dec. 15, 2025
"If these ideas are deemed seditious or 'crossing the line', then I feel I can't predict the consequences of anything anymore, and I can only do what I truly believe."
From Barron's • Nov. 30, 2025
Federal courts and legal scholars have long emphasized that seditious conspiracy charges apply only to coordinated efforts to use force against the government, rather than political dissent.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
In the end, Montaigne was unable to publish The Discourse because it had already been published by Protestant rebels and condemned as seditious.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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