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defamatory

adj
/dɪˈfæmətɹi/UK/dɪˈfæməˌtɔɹi/US

Etymology

From Middle French diffamatoire (altered after the prefix de-), from Medieval Latin diffāmātōrius.

  1. derived from diffāmātōrius
  2. borrowed from diffamatoire

Definitions

  1. Damaging to someone's reputation, especially if untrue.

    • defamatory statement
    • defamatory allegation
    • sue for defamatory comments

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at defamatory. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at defamatory. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at defamatory

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA