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Defamatory   Listen
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Defamatory  adj.  Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.





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... resentment. He charged his minister, in a publick paper, with scandal, defamation, and falsehood. The minister, thus reproached, had his own character to vindicate, upon which his pastoral authority must necessarily depend. To be charged with a defamatory lie is an injury which no man patiently endures in common life. To be charged with polluting the pastoral office with scandal and falsehood, was a violation of character still more atrocious, as it affected not only his personal but his clerical veracity. His indignation ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes - Volume V: Miscellaneous Pieces • Samuel Johnson
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Words linked to "Defamatory" :   harmful, libellous, denigrative, denigrating, libelous, calumniatory, slanderous, defame, calumnious


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