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adjective
- 1. (of a statement) false and defamatory; slanderous: formal "all of these charges are false and calumnious"
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Calumnious means false and damaging to someone's reputation. Learn how to use this formal adjective with examples from corpora and sources on the web.
- Calumnious
false and damaging to someone's reputation: Most of the...
- Calumny
(the act of making) a statement about someone that is not...
- Calumnious
false and damaging to someone's reputation: Most of the article is just a calumnious personal attack. Fewer examples. The suggestion that he misappropriated funds is calumnious and politically motivated. These vile aspersions against his character proved to be false and calumnious.
Calumnious definition: of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.. See examples of CALUMNIOUS used in a sentence.
noun. cal· um· ny ˈka-ləm-nē. also ˈkal-yəm- plural calumnies. Synonyms of calumny. 1. : a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation. denounced his opponent for his defamatory insinuations and calumny. 2. : the act of uttering false charges or misrepresentations maliciously calculated to harm another's reputation.
Calumnious means full of calumnies, slanderous, or defamatory. It comes from the Latin word calumniosus, meaning full of tricks or artifices. See examples, pronunciation, and related words.
calumnious. adjective. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign. synonyms: calumniatory, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous. harmful. causing or capable of causing harm.
(the act of making) a statement about someone that is not true and is intended to damage the reputation of that person: He was subjected to the most vicious calumny, but he never complained and never sued. Synonym. hatchet job informal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Damaging reputation. anti-defamation. aspersion. besmirch.
