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calumnious

[ kuh-luhm-nee-uhs ]

adjective

  1. of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.


calumnious

/ kəˈlʌmnɪəs; -trɪ; kəˈlʌmnɪətərɪ /

adjective

  1. of or using calumny
  2. (of a person) given to calumny
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of calumnious1

1480–90; < Latin ܳԾōܲ full of tricks or artifices, equivalent to calumni ( a ) calumny + -ōܲ -ous
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Example Sentences

Citing everything from calumnious headlines on the website he led, Breitbart News, to personal comments he allegedly made about Jews, Democrats said by picking Mr. Bannon, the president-elect has made his first stumble.

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Mr. Cazeneuve called the allegations part of a “vile” and “calumnious” campaign to defame him and his ministry, but his job may be on the line.

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The Rev. Federico Lombardi, the director of the Vatican Press Office, warned in a statement in May that her accusations were “calumnious affirmations — they are absolutely unacceptable, and subject to legal action.”

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Bieber, now 20, admitted to his wrongs in a statement to British tabloid the Sun, which first obtained the pair of calumnious videos in which the singer liberally uses the N-word.

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It would probably, as you suspect, enable calumnious people to say that you could make your resentments play second when they came in the way of your interests.

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