rolled-up plea
C2CEFR level
96/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A defamation defence asserting that statements of fact are true and that comments on them are fair.
The newspaper met the libel with a rolled-up plea, standing by both its facts and its opinions.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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