Defamatory
Defamatory adjective - Causing or intended to cause unjust injury to a person's good name.
Usage example: defamatory remarks that were published in the newspaper
Denigrative is a synonym for defamatory. In some cases you can use "Denigrative" instead an adjective "Defamatory".
Denigrative
Denigrative adjective - Intended to make a person or thing seem of little importance or value.
Usage example: thanked her for the gift and then added the denigrative aside, “Not that it's anything special!”
Defamatory is a synonym for denigrative. You can use "Defamatory" instead an adjective "Denigrative".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- insulting and defamatory
- insulting and denigrative
- scornful and defamatory
- scornful and denigrative
- contemptuous and defamatory
- contemptuous and denigrative
- deprecatory and defamatory
- deprecatory and denigrative
- disparaging and defamatory
- disparaging and denigrative
- abusive and defamatory
- abusive and denigrative
- scandalous and defamatory
- scandalous and denigrative
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