Usually means: False statements to damage reputation.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. calumny: Merriam-Webster
  2. calumny: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. calumny: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. calumny: Collins English Dictionary
  5. calumny: Vocabulary.com
  6. Calumny, calumny: Wordnik
  7. calumny: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. calumny: Wiktionary
  9. calumny: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. calumny: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. calumny: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Calumny, calumny: Dictionary.com
  13. calumny: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Calumny: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Calumny: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. calumny: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. calumny: Rhymezone
  18. Calumny: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. calumny: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. calumny: FreeDictionary.org
  21. calumny: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. calumny: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. calumny: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. calumny: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. calumny: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. calumny: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. calumny: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. calumny: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. calumny: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. calumny: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Calumny: Catholic Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (calumny)

▸ noun:  (countable) A false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another.
▸ verb:  (transitive, formal) To make false accusations or levy false charges against a person with the intent to tarnish that person's reputation or standing; to calumniate.

Similar:
defamation, slander, traducement, obloquy, aspersion, hatchet job, calumniation, calumniousness, smear, libel, more...

Opposite:
eulogy

Types:
ad hominem, ad populum, ad baculum, ad misericordiam, ad ignorantiam, ad vericundiam, more...

Phrases:
oath of calumny, more...

Adjectives:
such, mere, atrocious, vile, gross, foul, infamous, much, unfounded, malicious, pure


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Similar:
defamation, slander, traducement, obloquy, aspersion, hatchet job, calumniation, calumniousness, smear, libel, more...

Opposite:
eulogy

Types:
ad hominem, ad populum, ad baculum, ad misericordiam, ad ignorantiam, ad vericundiam, more...

Phrases:
oath of calumny, more...

Adjectives:
such, mere, atrocious, vile, gross, foul, infamous, much, unfounded, malicious, pure



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