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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)
- Catalan: difamador, difamant, difamatori
- French: diffamant (fr), diffamatoire (fr)
- Galician: difamador, difamatorio
- German: verleumderisch (de)
- Greek: δυσφημιστικός (el) m (dysfimistikós), συκοφαντικός (el) m (sykofantikós)
- Icelandic: ærumeiðandi
- Irish: aithiseach
- Middle English: blameful
- Polish: oszczerczy (pl), szkalujący
- Portuguese: difamador, difamatório
- Russian: клеветни́ческий (ru) (klevetníčeskij), поро́чащий (ru) (poróčaščij), бесче́стящий (ru) (besčéstjaščij), дискредити́рующий (ru) (diskreditírujuščij)
- Spanish: difamatorio, difamador (es)
- Ukrainian: наклепницький (naklepnycʹkyj), який ганьбить (jakyj hanʹbytʹ)
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