aspersive

aspersive
Defamatory; slanderous; libellous.

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  • libelous — li·bel·ous also li·bel·lous / lī bə ləs/ adj: constituting or including libel a libelous magazine article Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. libelous …   Law dictionary

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  • scandalous — adjective 1) a scandalous waste of taxpayers money Syn: disgraceful, shocking, outrageous, monstrous, criminal, wicked, sinful, shameful, atrocious, appalling, dreadful, deplorable, reprehensible, inexcusable, intolerable, insupportable …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • abusive — adj 1. affronting, insulting, offensive, off putting, unbearable, insufferable, intolerable, Brit. Inf. beastly, Archaic. affrontive; fulminatory, objurgatory, objurgative, contumelious; indecent, vulgar, obscene, lewd, licentious; smutty, filthy …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

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