Defamatory
Defamatory adjective - Causing or intended to cause unjust injury to a person's good name.
Deprecatory is a synonym for defamatory in insulting topic. In some cases you can use "Deprecatory" instead an adjective "Defamatory".
Deprecatory
Deprecatory adjective - Intended to make a person or thing seem of little importance or value.
Usage example: he typically followed up any mention of his accomplishments with some deprecatory comments about his perceived failures
Defamatory is a synonym for deprecatory in insulting topic. You can use "Defamatory" instead an adjective "Deprecatory".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- critical and defamatory
- critical and deprecatory
- offensive and defamatory
- offensive and deprecatory
- opprobrious and defamatory
- opprobrious and deprecatory
- insulting and defamatory
- insulting and deprecatory
- depreciative and defamatory
- depreciative and deprecatory
- disparaging and defamatory
- disparaging and deprecatory
- pejorative and defamatory
- pejorative and deprecatory
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