calumnious

2 definitions found

calumnious - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Calumnious \Ca*lum"ni*ous\, a. [L. calumniosus.]
     Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and
     injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           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.
          [1913 Webster]

calumnious - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  calumnious
      adj 1: (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to
             discredit or malign [syn: calumniatory, calumnious,
             defamatory, denigrative, denigrating,
             denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous]