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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Defamatory \De*fam"a*to*ry\, adjective Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
defamatory
adjective: (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign [syn: {calumniatory}, {calumnious}, {denigrative}, {denigrating}, {denigratory}, {libellous}, {libelous}, {slanderous}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "defamatory": abusive, back-biting, backbiting, belittling, bitchy, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, contemptuous, contumelious, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detracting, detractory, disparaging, libelous, maligning, minimizing, pejorative, ridiculing, scandalous, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, vilifying
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