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клеветни́ческий — meaning in English

klevetnicheskiy

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English meaning

  • defamatory adj Damaging to someone's reputation, especially if untrue.
  • injurious adj Causing physical harm.
  • libelous adj Defamatory, libeling, referring to something that causes harm to someone's reputation especially with malice or disregard.
  • slanderous adjective False and damaging to someone's reputation.

Senses

клеветни́ческий is used for these senses in English:

  • defamatory Damaging to someone's reputation, especially if untrue.
  • injurious Causing harm to one's reputation; invidious, defamatory, libelous, slanderous.
  • slanderous (of something said) Both untrue and harmful to a reputation.

injurious — full definition

  1. adj Causing physical harm.
  2. adj Damaging to someone's reputation.

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