litigatespecialized
She threatened to sue the magazine for libel.她威胁说要起诉该杂志诽谤。
She decided to sue for libel after the newspaper smeared her private life.这家报纸对她的私生活造谣诬蔑，她决定以诽谤罪起诉。
You'll have to spend a small fortune in legal fees if you decide to sue for compensation.如果你决定索赔，要支付一大笔法律费用。
He was so enraged at the article about him that he sued the newspaper.
He was sued for breach of contract.他因为违反合同而被起诉。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Taking legal action
abatement order
ambulance-chasing
appear for someone
bring
bring an action
complainant
enter
indict
indictment
lawyer
lawyer up
legal action
litigant
litigate
petitioner
prosecute
prosecution
prosecutorial
reindict
reindictment

Examples of sued

sued

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Other occupational groups who were apparently more likely to sue than to be sued were yeomen, scribes and notaries, and apothecaries and barbers.
The fact that she sued and the magistrate took up her case suggests that she could have won the case under other circumstances.
Nowadays, by contrast, anyone who tried too assiduously to follow such advice might well find himself sued for breach of copyright.
By contrast a defendant has been sued and it is virtually costless for the defendant to plead a negative-expected-value defense.
Doing harm to patients through carelessness can lead to at least a reprimand and perhaps being sued for negligence.
Litigation by creditors who sued men for their separated wives' debts often turned on whether the wife had bought unnecessary items.
Instead of watching their livelihood haemorrhage away, royalists sued their old tenants for non-payment of rent.
The sum sued for was sometimes considerable and sometimes quite trifling.
A more exact solution of the full problem is currently being pur sued with numerical methods.
The couple sued for conversion and for intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The manager who presents a work attributed by its genre to another theatre commits no crime; he cannot then be sued in the criminal courts.
The landowners and farmers who sued the copper companies for damages were + in varying degrees + unsuccessful.
In addition, women sued for or defended their right to property that was given to them, which shows their active management of that property.
In a legal sense, consent only becomes critical when the doctor is sued for damages or prosecuted for unprofessional conduct.
The patient made clear that the trust could be sued.
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