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Calumny definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CALUMNY, n. Slander; false accusation of a crime or offense, knowingly or maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; false representation of facts reproachful to another, made by design, and with knowledge of its falsehood; sometimes followed by on. Neglected calumny soon expires.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions [syn: defamation, calumny, calumniation, obloquy, traducement, hatchet job]
2: an abusive attack on a person's character or good name [syn: aspersion, calumny, slander, defamation, denigration]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -nies) Etymology: Middle English calumnye, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French calomnie, from Latin calumnia, from calvi to deceive; perhaps akin to Old English h?lian to slander, Greek k?lein to beguile Date: 15th century 1. a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation 2. the act of uttering false charges or misrepresentations maliciously calculated to harm another's reputation • calumnious adjective • calumniously adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. (pl. -ies) 1 slander; malicious representation. 2 an instance of this. --v.tr. (-ies, -ied) slander. Derivatives: calumnious adj. Etymology: L calumnia

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Calumny Cal"um*ny, n.; pl. Calumnies. [L. calumnia, fr. calvi to devise tricks, deceive; cf. F. calomnie. Cf. Challenge, n.] False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction. ``Infamous calumnies.'' --Motley. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(calumnies) Calumny or a calumny is an untrue statement made about someone in order to reduce other people's respect and admiration for them. (FORMAL) He was the victim of calumny. = slander N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Slander (known to be false), defamation, aspersion, backbiting, detraction, abuses, scandal, obloquy, false accusation, malicious lying.

Moby Thesaurus

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, vituperation