Word Meanings - DEFAMATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEFAMATORY)

• Libellous
• Defamatory
• calumnious

Related words: (words related to DEFAMATORY)

• DEFAMATORY
  Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.
• CALUMNIOUS
  Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports. Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes. Shak. Syn: Slanderous; defamatory; scurrilous; opprobrious; derogatory; libelous;