libelous[adjective]Synonyms: backbiting, calumnious, defamatory, detracting, detractive, detractory, invidious, maligning, scandalous, slanderous, traducing, vilifying
Contrasted words: adulating, adulatory, applauding, commendatory, eulogistic, eulogizing, laudatory, praising
Related Words: depreciative,
depreciatory,
derogative,
disparaging,
pejorative,
contumelious,
debasing,
malevolent,
vituperative [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
li‧bel‧lous British English,
libelous American English /ˈlaɪb
ələs/
adjective containing untrue written statements about someone which could make other people have a bad opinion of them ⇒
slanderous:
libellous gossip [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲