adjective
injurious to reputation
the campaign degenerated into an exchange of libelous statements
Synonyms: backbiting, calumnious, defamatory, detracting, detractive, detractory, invidious, maligning, scandalous, slanderous, traducing, vilifying
Related Word: depreciative, depreciatory, derogative, disparaging, pejorative; contumelious, debasing, malevolent, vituperative
Contrasted words: adulating, adulatory, applauding, commendatory, eulogistic, eulogizing, laudatory, praising