Slanderous, defamatory, obscene, indecent, lewd, pornographic, violent, abusive, insulting, threatening and harassing comments are not tolerated.
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Defamatory
//dɪˈfæməˌtɔɹi//
Synonyms for "defamatory" (50 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Adjective(2 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (25)
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Synonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
3 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
27 translations across 14 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- злословен adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
- клеветни́чески adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
Catalan
3 entries- difamador adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
- difamant adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
- difamatori adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
French
2 entries- diffamant adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
- diffamatoire adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
Galician
2 entries- difamador adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
- difamatorio adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
German
1 entries- verleumderisch adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
Greek
2 entries- δυσφημιστικός adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
- συκοφαντικός adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
Icelandic
1 entries- ærumeiðandi adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
Irish
1 entries- aithiseach adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
Middle English
1 entries- blameful adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
Polish
2 entries- oszczerczy adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
- szkalujący adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
Portuguese
2 entries- difamador adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
- difamatório adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
Russian
4 entries- бесче́стящий adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
- дискредити́рующий adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
- клеветни́ческий adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
- поро́чащий adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
Spanish
2 entries- difamador adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
- difamatorio adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
Ukrainian
2 entries- наклепницький adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
- який ганьбить adj (damaging to someone’s reputation)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
I demand that you remove your slanderous and defamatory comments at once or my lawyers will be in touch.
Source: tatoeba (1484413)
The defamatory article can still be read on the website of the newspaper mentioned above.
Source: tatoeba (4404815)
We do not seek to limit your expression of ideas, but material that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, indecent, abusive, violent, pornographic, threatening, harassing, discriminatory or that constitutes hate speech or is illegal is not allowed and may be deleted at the discretion of the site management.
Source: tatoeba (11859794)
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