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Meanings of calumniatory in English
(Used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign.
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Examples for "defamatory"
Examples for "defamatory"
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It is defamatory and I will leave it at that, he said.
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Lawyers for Sinn Féin contended that neither statement contained any defamatory content.
3
The movie contains many false and defamatory statements and scenes about me.
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I mean, it's pretty defamatory stuff, Mr McGowan told reporters on Wednesday.
5
His attorney Marty Singer has dismissed the allegations as discredited and defamatory.
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Now they fabricated and circulated all manner of slanderous reports respecting me.
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Insolent, scurrilous, or slanderous language, when it precedes an assault, aggravates it.
3
But it would be money well spent; it would silence the slanderous tongue.
4
Nevertheless, slanderous campaigns continued to be mounted by factions determined to unseat him.
5
The slanderous letter had not shaken her faith in him, yet.
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What were editors thinking in publishing material that was so obviously libellous?
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We can bear this libellous gossip least patiently of all with birds.
3
In my opinion it's libellous to say that I'm protecting a deserter.
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Therefore, the alleged libellous comments should be covered by parliamentary privilege.
5
He had written the following libellous couplet upon the fair sex:-
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That's difficult to argue while simultaneously denigrating their ability to deliver services.
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But denigrating them as mainly serving the military-industrial complex is quite something.
3
City dwellers and environmentalists should stop denigrating farmers, he told Europe 1 radio.
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We should not insult their motivations by denigrating their voting choice, he said.
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Dillon felt a stab of guilt for denigrating her job earlier.
1
Comments favorable and unfavorable, some of them libelous, appeared in print.
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It isn't libelous if it's done as a joke without malice.
3
In other locales, perfectly accurate statements can be considered libelous.
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Aside from the fact that it is intemperate and inaccurate, it is also libelous.
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I wonder the curse of Gomorrah does not descend on this gossiping, libelous community.
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Even to look into her face did not silence the calumnious whispering.
2
The results of your denunciation will be stifled, because they are calumnious.
3
Mr. George Frederick Augustus Howard blushed indignant refutation of the calumnious charge.
4
These things gave the broadest refutation to such a calumnious charge.
5
That Colonel Newcome has uttered calumnious and insolent charges against you.
Usage of calumniatory in English
1
No proposals were made to Cicero, the reasons usually assigned for which are of the most calumniatory kind.
2
Were they true or calumniatory?
3
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.