Crossword clues for defamatory
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Defamatory \De*fam"a*to*ry\, a. Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Middle French diffamatoire, Medieval Latin diffamatorius "tending to defame," from diffamat-, past participle stem of diffamare (see defame).
Wiktionary
a. damaging to someone's reputation, especially if untrue
WordNet
adj. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign [syn: calumniatory, calumnious, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous]
Usage examples of "defamatory".
Anna Heves was arrested and she will be brought to trial because she was found-actually found, mind you-smuggling newspaper articles, defamatory to the Government of this country, for insertion in foreign journals.
Naniescu went on with slow deliberation, shedding his affected manner as a useless garment no longer required to conceal his thoughts, "the children have done us an infinity of mischief, in the eyes of the British and American public, by the publication of articles defamatory to our Government.
Slabberdegullion druggels, lubbardly louts, blockish grutnols, doddipol joltheads, lobdotterels, codshead loobies, ninny-hammer flycatchers, and other suchlike defamatory epithets!