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Defamatory   /dɪfˈæmətˌɔri/   Listen
Defamatory

adjective
1.
(used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign.  Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous.





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"Defamatory" Quotes from Famous Books



... Embittered by persistent failures, Worm continued to pour out his bitterness not only upon his stepfather, but upon other and much higher placed persons until at last he was caught and sentenced to die on the gallows for "having written and circulated grossly defamatory poems about the royal family". In this extremity, he appealed to Kingo, who successfully exerted his then great influence to have the sentence commuted to banishment for life to the Danish colony ...
— Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark • Jens Christian Aaberg


Words linked to "Defamatory" :   defame, harmful


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