Meanings of defamatory in anglès

What were editors thinking in publishing material that was so obviously libellous?

We can bear this libellous gossip least patiently of all with birds.

In my opinion it's libellous to say that I'm protecting a deserter.

Therefore, the alleged libellous comments should be covered by parliamentary privilege.

He had written the following libellous couplet upon the fair sex:-

That's difficult to argue while simultaneously denigrating their ability to deliver services.

But denigrating them as mainly serving the military-industrial complex is quite something.

City dwellers and environmentalists should stop denigrating farmers, he told Europe 1 radio.

We should not insult their motivations by denigrating their voting choice, he said.

Dillon felt a stab of guilt for denigrating her job earlier.

Comments favorable and unfavorable, some of them libelous, appeared in print.

It isn't libelous if it's done as a joke without malice.

In other locales, perfectly accurate statements can be considered libelous.

Aside from the fact that it is intemperate and inaccurate, it is also libelous.

I wonder the curse of Gomorrah does not descend on this gossiping, libelous community.

Even to look into her face did not silence the calumnious whispering.

The results of your denunciation will be stifled, because they are calumnious.

Mr. George Frederick Augustus Howard blushed indignant refutation of the calumnious charge.

These things gave the broadest refutation to such a calumnious charge.

That Colonel Newcome has uttered calumnious and insolent charges against you.

No proposals were made to Cicero, the reasons usually assigned for which are of the most calumniatory kind.

Were they true or calumniatory?

He must divert their sympathy for Ray into distrust of him, and before he had fully considered his words they were spoken,-crafty ,insidious ,andcalumniatory.