Hypertext Webster Gateway: "calumnious"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Calumnious \Ca*lum"ni*ous\, a. [L. calumniosus.]
Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and
injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports.
Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes. --Shak.
Syn: . Slanderous; defamatory; scurrilous; opprobrious;
derogatory; libelous; abusive. -- {Ca*lum"ni*ous*ly},
adv. -- {Ca*lum"ni*ous*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
calumnious
adj : (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to
discredit or malign [syn: {calumniatory}, {defamatory},
{denigrative}, {denigrating}, {denigratory}, {libellous},
{libelous}, {slanderous}]
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