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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun calumny has 2 senses
- calumny(n = noun.communication) calumniation, 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
- calumny(n = noun.act) aspersion, defamation, denigration, slander - an abusive attack on a person's character or good name; Array is a kind of attack
has particulars: assassination, blackwash, character assassination, malignment, smear, vilification, libel, slander, name calling, names, epithet, name
Derived forms verb calumniate1, adjective calumnious1
Derived forms verb calumniate1, adjective calumnious1
CIDE DICTIONARY
False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction. Motley. [1913 Webster]
"Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
calumny, n. & v.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 slander; malicious representation.
2 an instance of this.
--v.tr. (-ies, -ied) slander.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 slander; malicious representation.
2 an instance of this.
--v.tr. (-ies, -ied) slander.
Derivative
calumnious adj.
Etymology
L calumnia
THESAURUS
calumny
abuse, animadversion, backbiting, backstabbing, belittlement, bitchiness, calumniation, cattiness, contumely, defamation, depreciation, disparagement, invective, libel, obloquy, opprobrium, reflection, revilement, scandal, scurrility, slander, stricture, tale, traducement, vilification, vituperationROGET THESAURUS
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Detraction
N detraction, disparagement, depreciation, vilification, obloquy, scurrility, scandal, defamation, aspersion, traducement, slander, calumny, obtrectation, evil-speaking, backbiting, scandalum magnatum, personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade, chronique scandaleuse, roorback, sarcasm, cynicism, criticism (disapprobation), invective, envenomed tongue, spretae injuria formae, personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade, chronique scandaleuse, roorback, detractor, detracting, defamatory, detractory, derogatory, deprecatory, catty, disparaging, libelous, scurrile, scurrilous, abusive, foul- spoken, foul-tongued, foul-mouthed, slanderous, calumnious, calumniatory, sarcastic, sardonic, sarcastic, satirical, cynical, critical, damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, and without sneering, teach the rest to sneer, another lie nailed to the counter, cut men's throats with whisperings, foul whisperings are abroad, soft-buzzing slander, virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.
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