English
Etymology
From Middle French diffamatoire (altered after the prefix de-), from Medieval Latin diffāmātōrius.
Pronunciation
Adjective
defamatory (comparative more defamatory, superlative most defamatory)
- damaging to someone's reputation, especially if untrue
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
damaging to someone’s reputation
- Bulgarian: клеветни́чески (bg) (klevetníčeski), злословен (bg) (zlosloven)
- Catalan: difamatori, difamador, difamant
- French: diffamatoire (fr), diffamant (fr)
- Galician: difamatorio, difamador
- German: verleumderisch (de)
- Greek: δυσφημιστικός (el) m (dysfimistikós), συκοφαντικός (el) m (sykofantikós)
- Icelandic: ærumeiðandi
- Irish: aithiseach
- Middle English: blameful
- Polish: oszczerczy (pl), szkalujący
- Portuguese: difamatório, difamador
- Russian: бесче́стящий (ru) (besčéstjaščij), дискредити́рующий (ru) (diskreditírujuščij), клеветни́ческий (ru) (klevetníčeskij), поро́чащий (ru) (poróčaščij)
- Spanish: difamatorio, difamador (es)
- Ukrainian: який ганьбить (jakyj hanʹbytʹ), наклепницький (naklepnycʹkyj)
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