Defamatory: alternatives and connections

Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous.

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Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous.

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To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust.

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To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust.

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Containing calumny; slanderous.

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Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports.

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Containing or involving a libel; defamatory; containing that which exposes some person to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule; as, a libelous pamphl…

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Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.