calumniation

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Noun

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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

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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." [1913 Webster]

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