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Definition of Calumny
1. Noun. A false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions.
Generic synonyms: Depreciation, Derogation, Disparagement
Specialized synonyms: Assassination, Blackwash, Character Assassination, Malignment, Smear, Vilification, Libel, Slander, Name Calling, Names, Epithet, Name
Derivative terms: Calumniate, Calumnious, Defame, Traduce
2. Noun. An abusive attack on a person's character or good name.
Generic synonyms: Attack
Derivative terms: Asperse, Calumniate, Calumnious, Defame, Denigrate, Slander, Slanderous
Definition of Calumny
1. n. False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction.
Definition of Calumny
1. Noun. a falsification or misrepresentation intended to disparage or discredit another. ¹
2. Noun. false charges brought about to tarnish another's reputation or standing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Calumny
1. a false and malicious accusation [n -NIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calumny
Literary usage of Calumny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively and by Robert Christy (1887)
"Be thou as chaste as ice and pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Shaks.
4. ... calumny and conjecture may injure innocence itself. 6. ..."
2. The Ecclesiastical Law by Richard Burn, Robert Philip Tyrwhitt (1824)
"The custom obtained to the contrary notwithstanding] By this it appeareth, that
by the custom of the realm of England the oath of calumny was not to be ..."
3. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"A magisterial person, seated at right, attended by Ignorance and Suspicion,
stretches out his hand to calumny, who holds in one j hand the torch of discord, ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1908)
"By this oath each party affirms that he will continue the trial solely for the
purpose of litigation, and not of calumny; he promises, moreover, ..."
5. Led On!: Step by Step, Scenes from Clerical, Military, Educational, and by Anthony Toomer Porter (1898)
"I did not then know the calumny of which I had been made the victim, and to which
I have before referred. ..."
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