0 damaging the reputation of a person or group by saying or writing bad things about them that are not true:
1 likely to harm someone's reputation:
defamatory remarks/statements/allegations
She said the story was "completely untrue and highly defamatory."
Messages which may be considered defamatory will not be published.
The book contains defamatory material about her and she is entitled to protect her reputation.
The courts found some of the statements defamatory.
This ' haggis defence ' failed, since spreading false scurrilous reports was as defamatory as inventing them.
The lower ratios of women in the university courts is possibly explained by their admission of a far broader range of insults as defamatory.
It would certainly be misleading to support such an interpretation by appealing to the defamatory meaning of ficus.
The content of most defamatory statements mirror this trend, as does the time frame of their appearances, namely the latter part of the sixteenth century.
I have sorted out from my voluminous mail this morning three documents, three letters to me, all of a defamatory and obscene character.
