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calumniation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun calumniation has 1 sense
- calumniation(n = noun.communication) calumny, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement - a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions; Array is a kind of depreciation, derogation, disparagement
has particulars: assassination, blackwash, character assassination, malignment, smear, vilification, libel, slander, name calling, names, epithet, name
CIDE DICTIONARY
calumniation, n.
False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name. [1913 Webster]
"The calumniation of her principal counselors."
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