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Defamatory adj. Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.

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"Defamatory" Quotes from Famous Books

... injustice. The copies of these examinations, made up of extorted confessions, or the evidence of inhabile witnesses, were all that were transmitted to the Privy Council, who were to direct the future mode of procedure. Thus no creature was secure against the malice or folly of some defamatory accusation, if there was a timid or superstitious judge, though of the meanest denomination, to ...

— Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft • Sir Walter Scott

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... opinions they shared without possessing the courage necessary to suffer in attestation of the common faith. Busy informers at one time found evidence, more than warranting the suspicion that Roussel's manuscripts had furnished the material of which scandalous placards defamatory of the Pope were framed.[172] A little later the proctor of the cathedral drew attention to the irregular conventicles held in the church itself, every Sunday and feast-day, after Roussel had preached. These "combers, carders, and other persons of the same stamp, unlettered folk,"[173] ...

— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird

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Words linked to "Defamatory" : defame, denigrative, libellous, harmful, denigratory, slanderous, libelous, calumniatory, denigrating, calumnious