Calumnious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Containing or implying calumny; slanderous or defamatory.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. possessing the traits of calumny
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Using calumny; containing or implying calumny; injurious to reputation; slanderous: as, “calumnious knave,” ; “calumnious mis-statements,”
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
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    defamatory    slanderous    libelous    abusive    scurrilous   
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