Defamatory

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Defamatory \De*fam"a*to*ry\, a.
     Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious;
     slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  defamatory
       adj : (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to
             discredit or malign [syn: {calumniatory}, {calumnious},
              {denigrative}, {denigrating}, {denigratory}, {libellous},
              {libelous}, {slanderous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "defamatory":
     abusive, back-biting, backbiting, belittling, bitchy, calumniatory,
     calumnious, catty, censorious, contemptuous, contumelious,
     deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory,
     derogative, derogatory, detracting, detractory, disparaging,
     libelous, maligning, minimizing, pejorative, ridiculing,
     scandalous, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting,
     vilifying