What's the difference between defamatory and injurious?

Defamatory


Definition:

  • (a.) Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
  • (2) Mrs Trump has placed several news organizations on notice of her legal claims against them, including Daily Mail among others, for making false and defamatory statements about her supposedly having been an ‘escort’ in the 1990s.
  • (3) I can confirm that notice has been served due to a highly defamatory tweet.
  • (4) Murat, his friend Michaela Walczuch and IT consultant Sergey Malinka had all brought proceedings against the four newspaper groups over nearly 100 "seriously defamatory" articles.
  • (5) Three years later the House of Lords decided to allow the media to plead the Reynolds defence - which meant newspapers could print untrue and defamatory information if they could prove it was in the public interest to publish it and that it was the product of responsible journalism.
  • (6) A lawyer for Ford said the reports about the mayor smoking crack were false and defamatory.
  • (7) Any suggestion of impropriety is malicious and defamatory and will be treated as such,” said a spokesman.
  • (8) In a letter to Channel 4, they said that the depiction of Shia beliefs in The Qur'an, broadcast earlier this month, was "disappointing, misleading, even defamatory".
  • (9) Haji-Ioannou and his easyGroup had instigated a series of "increasingly personalised attacks", Rake declared , "involving a number of inaccurate and misleading statements, including inappropriate and defamatory assertions and innuendo".
  • (10) I am writing to Chris Bryant indicating that the relevant paragraph is both wrong and defamatory and asking him not to repeat it.
  • (11) It is understood Google has removed hundreds of references to the defamatory claims after requests from Mosley's solicitors.
  • (12) Websites will also be given greater protection from being sued if they help to identify those posting defamatory messages, under government plans.
  • (13) Bercow accepted an earlier offer to settle the matter after Tugendhat's ruling in May that a tweet posed by her was highly defamatory.
  • (14) Candy & Candy have asked me to put you on notice that they will instruct lawyers over anything written that is defamatory or incorrect,” Reading said.
  • (15) In a letter sent to Wallace, Tweed wrote that the politician made “an extremely serious, false and defamatory allegation” in a tweet.
  • (16) She left Rodríguez Lozano to live with Dr Atl in La Merced, causing a public scandal second in rumpus only to the scandal caused by their separation, two years later, which included loud public screaming, buckets of cold water thrown at each other, death threats, and defamatory pamphlets pasted on the doors of the ex-convent.
  • (17) The internet will become constructed entirely of two different sorts of untruth: contemporaneous unalloyed praise and posthumous defamatory hearsay.
  • (18) "The allegations published by the newspaper on 8 October 2010 are completely untrue and seriously defamatory of Lady Moore," Catherine Rhind, of Harbottle & Lewis, said in a statement in open court.
  • (19) In a statement, Ailes called Carlson’s suit “retaliatory for the network’s decision not to renew her contract, which was due to the fact that her disappointingly low ratings were dragging down the afternoon lineup … This defamatory lawsuit is not only offensive, it is wholly without merit and will be defended vigorously.” Ailes’s personal counsel and spokespeople for 21st Century Fox have not replied to requests for comment on the claim that his accusers now number more than 20.
  • (20) Instead, he chose to run a defamatory half-page advertisement in the local newspaper in Airlie beach that insinuated I was ‘on the take’ for pushing for the Abbot Point expansion,” Christensen wrote.

Injurious


Definition:

  • (a.) Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable.
  • (a.) Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental; mischievous; as, acts injurious to health, credit, reputation, property, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Such a signal must be due to a small ferromagnetic crystal formed when the nerve is subjected to pressure, such as that due to mechanical injury.
  • (2) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
  • (3) Van Persie's knee injury meant that Mata could work in tandem with the delightfully nimble Kagawa, starting for the first time since 22 January.
  • (4) It is concluded that amlodipine reduces myocardial ischemic injury by mechanism(s) that may involve a reduction in myocardial oxygen demand as well as by positively influencing transmembrane Ca2+ fluxes during ischemia and reperfusion.
  • (5) Of the 594 patients, 23.7% died and 38.7% had documented inhalation injury.
  • (6) After vascular injury, smooth muscle cells proliferate, reaching a maximum rate at day 2.
  • (7) In more than 70 per cent of these, brain injury is the decisive lethal factor.
  • (8) The reduction rates of peripheral leukocytes, lung Schiff bases and lung water content were not identical in rats depleted from leukocyte after inhalation injury.
  • (9) An intact post-injury marriage was associated with improvement in education.
  • (10) The four deaths were not related to the injuries of parenchymatous organs.
  • (11) A review is presented concerning the development of new neuroimaging techniques in the last decade which have improved the diagnostic exploration of patients with spinal cord injuries, including studies of possible sequelae.
  • (12) Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the forearm were the best predictors of bony injury.
  • (13) Eighty-four paraplegic patients whose injury level was T2 or below and who were at least one year from spinal cord injury were screened for upper extremity complaints.
  • (14) He’s been so consistent this season.” Barkley took the two late penalties because the regular taker, Romelu Lukaku, had been withdrawn at half-time with a back injury that is likely to keep the striker out of Saturday’s trip to Stoke City.
  • (15) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
  • (16) Achilles tendon overuse injuries exist as a spectrum of diseases ranging from inflammation of the paratendinous tissue (paratenonitis), to structural degeneration of the tendon (tendinosis), and finally tendon rupture.
  • (17) The effects of brain injury can be catastrophic and long-term so the impact of more research would be vast, but affected numbers are too small so it loses out.
  • (18) After the diagnosis of a soft-tissue injury (sprain, strain, or contusion) has been made, treatment must include an initial 24- to 48-hour period of RICE.
  • (19) Stimulation with these electrodes were effective for inducing voiding with little residual volume after the recovery of bladder reflexes, 3 weeks after experimental spinal cord injury in the dog.
  • (20) The severity of injury in a gunshot wound is dependent on many factors, including the type of firearm; the velocity, mass, and construction of the bullet; and the structural properties of the tissues that are wounded.