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
Depreciative and defamatory are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Depreciative" instead an adjective "Defamatory".
Depreciative
Depreciative adjective - Intended to make a person or thing seem of little importance or value.
Usage example: the usual depreciative comments by the troops about the food in the mess hall
Defamatory and depreciative are semantically related. You can use "Defamatory" instead an adjective "Depreciative".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- offensive and defamatory
- offensive and depreciative
- opprobrious and defamatory
- opprobrious and depreciative
- insulting and defamatory
- insulting and depreciative
- deprecatory and defamatory
- deprecatory and depreciative
- disparaging and defamatory
- disparaging and depreciative
- abusive and defamatory
- abusive and depreciative
- injurious and defamatory
- injurious and depreciative
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Depreciative and Defamatory. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/defamatory/depreciative
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Depreciative or Defamatory. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/defamatory/depreciative.
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