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Synonyms & Antonyms of defamatory
causing or intended to cause unjust injury to a person's good name
- defamatory remarks that were published in the newspaper
Synonyms for defamatory
- calumnious,
- libelous
- (or libellous),
- scandalous,
- slanderous
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