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21Pope Boniface VIII — Pope Boniface VIII † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Pope Boniface VIII (BENEDETTO GAETANO) Born at Anagni about 1235; died at Rome, 11 October, 1303. He was the son of Loffred, a descendant of a noble family originally Spanish, but long… …
22libelous — 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 …
23contemptuous — I adjective abasing, abject, abominable, abusive, accusatory, arbitrary, arrogant, base, brazen, bumptious, calumniating, calumniatory, calumnious, challenging, compromising, contemptible, contumelious, damaging, decrying, defamatory, defiant,… …
24damaging — I adjective baneful, calamitous, calumnious, caustic, contemptuous, corrosive, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, disastrous, grievous, harmful, hurtful, incriminatory, inculpatory, inimical, injurious, insalubrious, malefic …
25derogatory — I adjective belittling, calumniatory, calumnious, censorious, condemnatory, contumelious, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, detracting, detractory, disapprobatory, disapproving, discrediting, disdainful,… …
26disparaging — I adjective abusive, blameful, calumnious, censorious, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, damnatory, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecative, derogatory, detractory, disrespectful, incriminatory, inculpatory, injurious, invective, inveighing …
27injurious — in·ju·ri·ous /in ju̇r ē əs/ adj: inflicting or tending to inflict injury in·ju·ri·ous·ly adv Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. injurious …
28pejorative — I adjective abusive, acrimonious, belittling, blackening, calumnious, castigatory, censorious, critical, cynical, damaging, decrying, defamatory, denigrating, denunciatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derogative, derogatory, detracting …
29defamatory — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. slanderous, libelous, abusive; see opprobrious 1 , 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. slanderous, libelous, denigrating, derogatory, disparaging, scandalous, insulting, calumnious, smearing, injurious. ANT.:… …
30Detraction — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Detraction >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 detraction detraction disparagement depreciation vilification obloquy scurrility scandal defamation aspersion traducement slander calumny obtrectation …
