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Definition: Defamatory |
DefamatoryAdjective1. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "defamatory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: DefamatorySynonyms: calumniatory (adj), calumnious (adj), denigrating (adj), denigrative (adj), denigratory (adj), libellous (adj), libelous (adj), slanderous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Detraction | Adjective: detracting;Verb: defamatory, detractory, derogatory, deprecatory; catty; disparaging, libelous; scurrile, scurrilous; abusive; foul-spoken, foul-tongued, foul-mouthed; slanderous; calumnious, calumniatory; sarcastic, sardonic; sarcastic, satirical, cynical. |
Disapprobation | Disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory, denunciatory, reproachful, abusive, objurgatory, clamorous, vituperative; defamatory. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Defamatory |
| English words defined with "defamatory": Aspersive ♦ Defamingly, Defamous, Detractory ♦ epithet ♦ name ♦ Roorbach ♦ Scandalum magnatum ♦ Viled. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "defamatory": Libelous. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Tunisia | The offense of sending defamatory mail was transferred to the Postal Services Code. (references) |
Samoa | The Attorney General said that even in a free society, the media did not have the right to make defamatory comments about the court. (references) | |
Moldova | Under the Court's 1999 ruling, parties filing lawsuits must prove that the information was false and defamatory and published recklessly or with intentional malice. (references) | |
Human Rights | Brunei | In 1999 he was released from detention after swearing an oath of loyalty to the Sultan and admitting his political "crimes." In 1998 authorities briefly detained several citizens under the ISA for distributing allegedly defamatory letters containing allegations about the royal family and senior government officials connected with the collapse of the Amedeo Group, a large holding company headed by the former Finance Minister and Sultan's brother, Prince Jefri. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Defamatory" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Defamatory" is used about 109 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 109 | 31,132 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "defamatory": be defamatory of smb. ♦ defamatory letter. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
defamatory | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "defamatory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | diskreditues (discreditable), shpifës (calumniator, calumniatory, calumnious, detractive, detractor, detractory, deviser, libeller, libellous, scandalmonger, slanderous), përgojues (slanderous), çnderues (dishonorable, dishonourable). (various references) | |
Arabic | قذفي (ballistic, libellous, slanderous), إفترائي (libeller, scandalous, slanderous). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | клеветнически (calumniatory, calumnious, injurious, libellous, scandalous, slanderous, wrongful), опозоряващ. (various references) | |
Chinese | 诽谤 (Calumniate, Calumniated, calumniating, Defamation, Defame, Defamed, Defaming, libel, libellous, slander). (various references) | |
Czech | potupný (degrading, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, ignominious, infamous), nactiutrhaèný, hanlivý (abusive, libellous, opprobrious, vituperative). (various references) | |
Dutch | smaadrede (abuse, abusive language, defamatory speech, diatribe), lasterlijke aanklacht (defamatory accusation). (various references) | |
Farsi | افتراامیز (Libelous, Slanderous). (various references) | |
Finnish | häpäisevä (insulting). (various references) | |
French | diffamatoire. (various references) | |
German | verleumderisch (calumnious, libellous, libelous, slanderous, slanderously). (various references) | |
Greek | συκοφαντικός (slanderous), δυσφημηστικόσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | משמיץ (aspersive, back biter, defamer, disgraceful, libellous, slanderer, slanderous). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyalázkodó (abusive, opprobrious, vituperative). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bersifat memfitnah. (various references) | |
Italian | diffamatorio (libellous, libelous, slanderous). (various references) | |
Manx | caartragh (abusive, abusive person, libellous, slanderer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | efamatoryday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | difamatório (calumniuos, libellous, scandalous, slanderous). (various references) | |
Romanian | defãimãtor (calumniatory, defamer, detractive, disparaging, libeller, libellous, scandalous, slanderer, slanderous), clevetitor (backbiter, calumniator, calumnious, defamer, scandalous, slanderer, slanderous, traducer), calomnios (backbiting, injurious, slanderous), calomniator (backbiter, calumniator, calumniatory, calumnious, defamer, libellous, scandalmonger, slanderer). (various references) | |
Russian | бесчестящий. (various references) | |
Spanish | difamatorio (libellous, libelous, scandalous, slanderous). (various references) | |
Swedish | ärekränkande (injurious, libellous). (various references) | |
Turkish | lekeleyen, iftira olan, şerefini lekeleyen. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | що безчестить, наклепницький (calumniatory, calumniuos, gossipy, libellous, scandalous, slanderous). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | phỉ báng (aspersive, aspersory, libellous, libelous, slanderer), nói xấu (impeachability, slanderer), l m mất danh dự. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Defamatory" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deflamatory, difamatory. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "defamatory" (pronounced dufa"mutô'rē) |
| 7 | -a" m u t ô' r ē | inflammatory. |
| 6 | -m u t ô' r ē | confirmatory, dormitory, reformatory. |
| 5 | -u t ô' r ē | accusatory, aleatory, ambulatory, anticipatory, articulatory, auditory, celebratory, circulatory, compensatory, conciliatory, confiscatory, congratulatory, contributory, declaratory, depilatory, depository, derogatory, dilatory, discriminatory, laboratory, laudatory, lavatory, excretory, exculpatory, expiratory, explanatory, exploratory, hallucinatory, incantatory, inhibitory, interrogatory, investigatory, mandatory, migratory, nondiscriminatory, obligatory, observatory, oratory, oscillatory, participatory, predatory, preparatory, prohibitory, purgatory, regulatory, repository, respiratory, retaliatory, revelatory, signatory, statutory, territory, transitory. |
| 4 | -t ô' r ē | desultory, multistory, repertory, understory. |
| 3 | -ô' r ē | allegory, category, outlawry, promissory. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-f-m-o-r-t-y" | |
-3 letters: amatory, atemoya, daymare, feodary, fermata, forayed, formate, matador. | |
-4 letters: afeard, aortae, dafter, datary, defoam, deform, defray, drafty, dreamt, dreamy, farmed, fedora, femora, foamed, foamer, format, formed, framed, frayed, marted, moated, orated, radome, rafted, ramate, roamed. | |
-5 letters: adore, adyta, afore, after, amort, aorta, armed, armet, aroma, atomy, damar, dater, deary, defat, derat, deray, derma. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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