Word Meanings - CALUMNIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

Additional info about word: CALUMNIOUS

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. Syn: -- Ca*lum"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Ca*lum"ni*ous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CALUMNIOUS)

• Libellous
• Defamatory
• calumnious

Related words: (words related to CALUMNIOUS)

• DEFAMATORY
  Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.
• CALUMNIOUS
  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;