denigrating vs defamatory

denigrating and defamatory both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
denigrating	No	Yes	No	No
defamatory	No	Yes	No	No

As adjectives, denigrating and defamatory are synonyms defined as:

denigrating and defamatory: (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign

Other synonyms of denigrating include calumniatory, calumnious, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous.

denigrating (adjective)	defamatory (adjective)
(used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign	(used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign