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Defamatory is the describing word. A defamatory comment, article, caption, or post is one that or says bad or things about someone so that people may think badly of them. The word sits on the statement, not on the person: a defamatory tweet, defamatory remarks — not he defamatory her. That doing-word is . Formal and legal. If something is true and said fairly, people will argue it is not defamatory; the fight is often about whether the words really harm a name, and whether they can be backed up.
具誹謗性的、誹謗的
組成From Middle French diffamatoire (later reshaped to look like the prefix de-), from Medieval Latin diffāmātōrius.
同家族的字
- defamethe verb at the centre of this family
- defamationthe act of harming a name this way
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
defamatoryadj/dɪˈfæmətɹi/
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Damaging to someone's reputation, especially if untrue.
- defamatory statement
- defamatory allegation
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。