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

Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous. -- As*pers"ive*ly, adv.

In a defamatory manner.

Defamatory. [Obs.]

Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious. Sir T. Browne.

Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.

Containing or involving a libel; defamatory; containing that which exposes some person to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule; as, a libelous pamphlet. [Written also libellous.] -- Li"bel*ous*ly, adv.

A defamatory name for a freethinker. [Obsoles.]

Censorious speech; defamatory language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions; blame; reprehension. Shall names that made yuor city the glory of the earth be mentioned with obloquy and detraction Addison.

A defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue. [U.S.]

Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory talk, uttered heedlessly or maliciously. You must not put another scandal on him. Shak. My known virtue is from scandal free. Dryden.

Defamatory; libelous; as, a scandalous story.

A defamatory speech or writing published to the injury of a person of dignity; -- usually abbreviated scan. mag.

iciously uttered, tending to injure the reputation of another; the malicious utterance of defamatory reports; the dissemination of malicious tales or suggestions to the injury of another. Whether we speak evil of a man to his face or behind his back; the former way, indeed, seems to be the most generous, but yet is a g…

Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.

Abusive; scurrilous; defamatory; vile. [Obs.] "Viled speeches." Hayward.