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Synonyms of defamatory in English:

defamatory


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adjective

1‘there were defamatory statements in the book’

SYNONYMS
libellous, slanderous, defaming, calumnious, calumniatory, vilifying, traducing, scandalous, scandalmongering, malicious, vicious, backbiting, muckraking, abusive, maledictory, maledictive
disparaging, denigratory, detracting, derogatory, censorious, critical
insulting, slurring, injurious
informal mud-slinging, bitchy, catty
archaic contumelious
ANTONYMS

complimentary