calumnious
Meaning of calumnious
- (of a statement) false and defamatory; slanderous.
all of these charges are false and calumnious
I was disgusted by their calumnious attack on my son's integrity
late 15th century: from Latin calumniosus, from calumnia calumny.
Information about calumnious
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of calumnious
calum-nious
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- calumnious is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
calumnious synonyms
Meaning calumniatory:
calumniatory, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous
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