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calumnious, contemptuous, derogatory
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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Calumniatory — Ca*lum ni*a*to*ry, a. Containing calumny; slanderous. Montagu. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
calumniatory — adj. calumnious, slanderous, defamatory, libelous … English contemporary dictionary
calumniatory — adjective (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign • Syn: ↑calumnious, ↑defamatory, ↑denigrative, ↑denigrating, ↑denigratory, ↑libellous, ↑libelous, ↑slanderous … Useful english dictionary
denigrating — adj. harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign; used of statements. Syn: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, libellous, libelous, slanderous. [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Konstantinos Karamanlis — This article is about the former Greek president who lived from 1907 to 1998. For his nephew, see Kostas Karamanlis. Konstantinos Karamanlis Κωνσταντίνος Καραμανλής … Wikipedia
calumnious — calumniously, adv. /keuh lum nee euhs/, adj. of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory. Also, calumniatory /keuh lum nee euh tawr ee, tohr ee/. [1480 90; < L calumniosus full of tricks or artifices, equiv. to calumni(a) CALUMNY +… … Universalium
calumniate — verb /kəˈlʌmni.eɪt/ To make hurtful untrue comments about (someone) Syn: slander See Also: calumniation, calumniator, calumniatory, calumnious, calumny … Wiktionary
calumnious — I adjective abusive, blackening, calumniatory, castigatory, caustic, censorious, comminatory, compromising, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, criminatory, criminosus, damaging, damnatory, decrying, defamatory, denigratory, denunciatory,… … Law dictionary
contemptuous — I adjective abasing, abject, abominable, abusive, accusatory, arbitrary, arrogant, base, brazen, bumptious, calumniating, calumniatory, calumnious, challenging, compromising, contemptible, contumelious, damaging, decrying, defamatory, defiant,… … Law dictionary
derogatory — I adjective belittling, calumniatory, calumnious, censorious, condemnatory, contumelious, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, detracting, detractory, disapprobatory, disapproving, discrediting, disdainful,… … Law dictionary
