Usually means: Spreading false statements to defame.
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  1. calumniation: Merriam-Webster
  2. calumniation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. calumniation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. calumniation: Vocabulary.com
  5. calumniation: Wordnik
  6. calumniation: Wiktionary
  7. Calumniation, calumniation: Dictionary.com
  8. Calumniation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. calumniation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Calumniation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. calumniation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. calumniation: FreeDictionary.org
  13. calumniation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Calumniation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. calumniation: Legal dictionary

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  1. calumniation: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  A false accusation, or a malicious statement, about someone.

Similar:
calumny, calumniousness, slander, vilification, misallegation, misaccusation, traduction, smear, traducement, libel, more...

Opposite:
praise, commendation, approval

Adjectives:
such, public, personal, false, malicious, righteous, vilest, official

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Similar:
calumny, calumniousness, slander, vilification, misallegation, misaccusation, traduction, smear, traducement, libel, more...

Opposite:
praise, commendation, approval

Adjectives:
such, public, personal, false, malicious, righteous, vilest, official



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