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  1. Containing defamation; calumnious; slanderous; libelous; injurious to reputation: as, defamatory words or writings. The most eminent sin is the spreading of defamatory reports. Government of the Tongue. Abuse is still much more convenient than argument, and the most effective form of abuse in a civilized age is a defamatory nickname. H. N. Oxenham, Short Studies, p. 5.

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  • You agree not knowingly submit any false, defamatory, abusive, obscene, threatening, racially offensive, sexually explicit or illegal material to the Web site.
  • Kindly do not post any defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful material or information. —  NDTV News - Top Stories
  • Those who persist to use expletives, inappropriate, racist, defamatory or abusive postings risk losing the privilege to post. —  The Minnesota Daily - mndaily.com
  • Likewise, you may not post content that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, abusive, that violates a third party's right to privacy, that otherwise violates any applicable local, state, national or international law, that amounts to spamming or that is otherwise inappropriate. —  Intellectual Property Watch
  • So those who persist with racist, defamatory or abusive postings risk losing the privilege to post at all. —  The Fergus Falls Daily Journal
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  1. = French diffamatoire = Spanish difamatorio = Portuguese Italian diffamatorio, from Middle Latin diffamatorius, from Latin diffamare, defame: see defame.
 

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