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Definition of Defamatory
1. Adjective. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign.
Similar to: Harmful
Derivative terms: Calumny, Calumny, Defame, Denigrate, Denigrate, Libel, Libel, Slander, Slander
Definition of Defamatory
1. a. Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.
Definition of Defamatory
1. Adjective. damaging to someone's reputation, especially if untrue ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Defamatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defamatory
Literary usage of Defamatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"Whether or not In any case the court can without the aid of a jury construe the
meaning of alleged defamatory words, yet, where the words are reasonably ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Torts by Charles Greenstreet Addison, Horace Gay Wood (1876)
"defamatory words not actionable without special damage ... defamatory words
actionable per se without proof of any special damage. 1119. ..."
3. The Foundations of Legal Liability: A Presentation of the Theory and by Thomas Atkins Street (1906)
"Interpretation of defamatory Words. n The subject of the interpretation of
defamatory words can be briefly dismissed. The artificial rule recognized in ..."
4. A Digest of the Law of Libel and Slander: And of Actions on the Case for by William Blake Odgers, James Bromley Eames (1905)
"CHAPTER I. defamatory WORDS. No man may disparage or destroy the reputati<fn of
another. Every man has a right to have his good name maintained unimpaired. ..."
5. Cases on the Law of Torts by Francis Hermann Bohlen (1915)
"The matter contained in the letter in question is admittedly defamatory ; its
publication to the plaintiff was admittedly intended ; and with that view the ..."
6. A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments) by James Fitzjames Stephen (1887)
"3 Any words or signs conveying defamatory matter marked upon any substance, and
any thing which by its own nature conveys defamatory matter, may be a libel ..."
7. The Law Journal Reports: New Series (1883)
"A man who writes defamatory matter and puts it in a wrong envelope is guilty of
... The action is for falsely and maliciously writing certain defamatory ..."
8. A Summary of the Law of Torts, Or, Wrongs Independent of Contract by Arthur Underhill (1889)
"(2) The imputation must be defamatory. (3) The imputation must have been published.
(4) The imputation must have been either expressly or ..."
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