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Definition of Calumnious
1. Adjective. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign.
Similar to: Harmful
Derivative terms: Calumny, Calumny, Defame, Denigrate, Denigrate, Libel, Libel, Slander, Slander
Definition of Calumnious
1. a. Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports.
Definition of Calumnious
1. Adjective. possessing the traits of calumny ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Calumnious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calumnious
Literary usage of Calumnious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1830)
"The right of Dom Miguel to the throne of Portugal, incontrovertibly established,
and his character vindicated from the calumnious charges of usurpation, ..."
2. Notes from My Journal when Speaker of the House of Commons by John Evelyn Denison Ossington (1900)
"As to the word calumnious, I should say of this word, as might be said of many
others : They must be taken with the context and under the condition of the ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"... with the view of preventing him from giving testimony at the hearing.3 Again,
any public and calumnious attack on persons who are expected to be ..."
4. The Life of Samuel J. Tilden by John Bigelow, Samuel Jones Tilden (1895)
"... His examination by n congressional committee — A calumnious report corrected —
Repudiates a reported arrangement between the Senate and House committees ..."
5. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, James Ivory (1828)
"... that the method prescribed by that act affords a greater security to the
pannels against the malice of calumnious prosecutors than the former, ..."
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