Calumnious synonyms

kə-lŭm'nē-əs

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invidious
Offensive and unfair:
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abusive
Characterized by improper or wrongful use:
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defamatory
Defaming or tending to defame; slanderous
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detractive
Tending to detract or draw.
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injurious
Offensive or insulting; hurtful:
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scandalous
Causing scandal; shocking:
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slanderous
Characterized by or constituting slander
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libelous
Given to writing and publishing libels; defamatory
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attack (related)
Designed or used for carrying out a hostile or aggressive attack
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crimes (related)
Damaging to the reputation
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law (related)
A statement that describes invariable relationships among phenomena under a specified set of conditions. Boyle's law, for instance, describes what will happen to the volume of an ideal gas if its pressure changes and its temperature remains the same. The conditions under which some physical laws hold are idealized (for example, there are no ideal gases in the real world), thus some physical laws apply universally but only approximately.
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calumniatory
Containing calumny; slanderous.
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denigrative
(used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
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denigrating
(used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
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denigratory
Tending to denigrate.
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libellous
(UK) Alternative spelling of libelous.
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insulting
The act of giving insult.
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Calumnious Sentence Examples

  • The answer to all these calumnious innuendoes is to be found in documents and title-deeds of decisive authority, and is simple enough.

  • He brought with him, for the refutation of calumnious reports circulated by his enemies, a written certificate from Cardinal Bellarmin, to the effect that no abjuration had been required of or penance imposed upon him.

  • They, however, persisted obstinately in their opposition to Damasus, combating him at first by riots, and then by calumnious law-suits, such as that instituted by one Isaac, a converted and relapsed Jew.

  • See Laingaeus, De Vita et Moribus (1585, calumnious); Antoine la Faye, De Vita et Obitu (1606, eulogistic); Schlosser, Leben (1806); Baum, Th.

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