adj. 25B6; adjective LIBELLOUS, slanderous, scandalmongering, malicious, vicious, backbiting, muckraking; abusive, disparaging, denigratory, insulting; informal mud-slinging, bitchy, catty; formal calumnious, calumniatory.
DEFAMATORY
Meaning of DEFAMATORY in English
Concise Oxford thesaurus English vocabulary. Краткий оксфордский словарь английского языка тезаурус. 2012