Difference between Harmful and Defamatory

HARMFUL vs DEFAMATORY: ADJECTIVE

Tending to discredit or malign
Containing defamation; calumnious; slanderous; libelous; injurious to reputation: as, defamatory words or writings.

Disadvantageous, Insidious, Negative, Hurtful, Prejudicial, Degrading, Unsafe, Pernicious, Noxious, Counterproductive, Dangerous, Damaging, Deleterious, Injurious, Detrimental

Prejudicial, Hurtful, Derogatory, Scurrilous, Untrue, Smear, Denigrative, Calumniatory, Harmful, Libellous, Denigrating, Denigratory, Calumnious, Libelous, Slanderous

Disadvantageous, Insidious, Negative, Hurtful, Prejudicial, Degrading, Unsafe, Pernicious, Noxious, Counterproductive, Dangerous, Damaging, Deleterious, Injurious, Detrimental

Prejudicial, Hurtful, Derogatory, Scurrilous, Untrue, Smear, Denigrative, Calumniatory, Harmful, Libellous, Denigrating, Denigratory, Calumnious, Libelous, Slanderous

Shampoo, conditioner, and soaps free of harmful packaging.
Compliance information cause harmful interference to radio communications.
Are genetically modified food products really that harmful?
Seed treated with substance harmful to vertebrate animals; color; label information; description of treated seed not harmful to vertebrate animals.
It is a commonplace of evidence law that a litigant is not entitled to exclude harmful evidence, but only unfairly harmful evidence.
It is untrue that the novel coronavirus grows and multiplies in sewers, and pouring harmful chemicals into sewers will have harmful effects.
We talk a lot about how harmful synthetic fragrances are, but there are other ingredients in conventional cleaning products that can be harmful.
Harmful Effects Pesticides can cause three types of harmful effects: acute effects.
Acts by a caregiver resulting in unnecessary, harmful or potentially harmful medical care to a child.
These records pertain to employees exposed to harmful toxic substances or harmful physical agents.

In this case, Lindsay made a defamatory statement.
True information cannot qualify as scandalous or defamatory.
Licensed content shall not be used for any defamatory, pornographic, or obscene purposes or incorporated in any defamatory, pornographic or obscene content.
INSULTING, DEFAMATORY, OR OBSCENE LANGUAGEMembers of the department shall not use insulting, defamatory or obscenelanguage in the performance of their duties.
Fischer made defamatory statements was not inadmissible hearsay, and the evidence indicating Benedict made defamatory statements sufficiently supported the allegations in her complaint.
To contrast, an imputation should contain the defamatory meaning, not purely the consequence of the defamatory meaning.
Libel involves written defamatory statements, while slander involves defamatory statements that are spoken aloud.
The plaintiff must plead and prove injury from the alleged defamatory words, whether their defamatory meaning be obvious or not.
In effect, the defamatory statement once proved and shown to be potentially defamatory, is presumed untrue, until otherwise proved.
There is nothing defamatory about this statementcertainly nothing defamatory of Plaintiff in particular.