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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb defame which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

defamatory
  1. damaging to someone's reputation, especially if untrue
  2. Synonyms:
      3. slanderous, calumnious, insulting, abusive, derogatory, disparaging, injurious, libellous, vilifying, calumniatory, contumelious, defaming, backbiting, denigrating, maledictory, malicious, muckraking, scandalmongering, scandalous, vicious, censorious, critical, denigratory, detracting, libelous, maledictive, scurrilous, slurring, traducing, vituperative, catty, deprecating, detractive, maligning, offensive, opprobrious, mud-slinging, pejorative, aspersive, untrue, belittling, false, damaging, uncomplimentary, degrading, derisive, misrepresentative, contemptuous, disdainful, deprecatory … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “We call on you to immediately withdraw your cruel and defamatory statements made against our client.”
      “With mounds of defamatory material, of claims and counterclaims, will anyone pay attention?”
      “More fundamentally, it may offend the basic principle that the only point of such a plea is to justify a defamatory meaning.”
defamous
  1. (obsolete) defamatory
defamed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of defame
  2. Synonyms:
      3. denigrated, discredited, disparaged, vilified, slandered, maligned, smeared, slurred, disgraced, traduced, knocked, decried, aspersed, derogated, libelled, libeled, calumniated, stigmatised, stigmatized, blackened, besmirched, rubbished, dishonoured, tarnished, deprecated, dishonored, vilipended, slammed, scandalised, scandalized, panned, insulted, roasted, detracted, vituperated, blistered, scorched, offended, villainized, belied, bad-mouthed, dragged through the mud, slagged off, ran down, run down, dragged through the mire, spoke ill of, spoken ill of, cast aspersions on, gave a bad name … more
defaming
  1. present participle of defame
  2. Synonyms:
      3. denigrating, discrediting, disparaging, vilifying, slandering, maligning, smearing, slurring, disgracing, traducing, knocking, decrying, aspersing, derogating, libelling, libeling, calumniating, stigmatising, stigmatizing, blackening, besmirching, rubbishing, dishonouring, tarnishing, deprecating, dishonoring, vilipending, slamming, scandalising, scandalizing, panning, insulting, roasting, detracting, vituperating, blistering, scorching, offending, villainizing, belying, bad-mouthing, dragging through the mud, slagging off, running down, dragging through the mire, speaking ill of, casting aspersions on, giving a bad name, flinging mud at, doing a hatchet job on … more
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