Meaning of calumny in English:

calumny

Pronunciation /ˈkaləmni/

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nouncalumnies

mass noun

1The making of false and defamatory statements about someone in order to damage their reputation; slander.
‘a bitter struggle marked by calumny and litigation’
- ‘You risk committing the sin of calumny.’
- ‘It pains us to be a subject of real calumny, unjustifiably so.’
- ‘When I buy Frank magazine and pass it around, I am doing evil for I am sharing in the sin of detraction and calumny.’
- ‘He defended his beliefs with vigour, but in the end was overwhelmed by the flood of insult and calumny to which he was subjected.’
- ‘What ethical responsibility does a bulletin board system bear towards publishing this calumny?’
- ‘Upon publication, he sued the newspaper for calumny because he was financially secure and was not in the shop-sign business.’
- ‘It would be a calumny on the reputation of that great man to suggest it.’
- ‘Although it's likely that she will prevail in court, he has made an ugly situation even uglier by echoing a lot of calumny and spreading bald disinformation, thereby reaffirming public lies.’
- ‘I'm sure both parts of this assertion are mere calumny.’
- ‘Incidentally, he takes her to task for disseminating such calumny.’
- ‘The notion that his allegations may be no more than calumny, or suspicion without substance doesn't seem to bother him.’
- ‘The management of the countryside, in which we landowners and farmers take such pride and for which we so often receive so much calumny, is just doing the same things on a still larger scale.’
- ‘I can only get away with this calumny because of the shield of anonymity.’
- ‘This calumny would be delightedly used by Caesar's enemies throughout his life to imply his homosexuality.’
- ‘As the first barrister briefed in that seminal case, it behoves me to respond to this ignorant calumny.’
- ‘Has it ever occurred to you that calumny is as grave a sin as witchcraft and that it would be advisable to at least know what you are talking about before you assassinate somebody's character?’
- ‘Weapons or slander do not cut it; fire or false presentation does not burn it; water or calumny does not moisten it, and wind or rumour does not dry it.’
- ‘It is symbolic of the way that this glamorous Italian has ridden out the storm of controversy, calumny and secrecy surrounding the building, designed by her late husband.’
- ‘Scandal, woe and calumny struck the otherwise genteel junior school carol concert last night.’
- ‘I find myself the victim of a campaign of calumny and abuse.’
slander, defamation, defamation of character, character assassination, misrepresentation of character, evil-speaking, calumniation, libel
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1. 1.1count noun A false and slanderous statement.
  ‘a change in the law would prevent the press from publishing calumnies’
  ‘This is a well-worn calumny.’
  ‘It creates a nexus of links that increase the chance that the calumny will come to the top of a google search.’
  ‘Could it have been those allegiances that in some way led her to purvey such calumnies?’
  ‘But I hope that I may be allowed to point out a very grave misunderstanding and misattribution, and to protest the calumny with which the attack on me reaches its crescendo.’
  ‘Even then, they fled the party and subjected him to a vitriolic calumny unprecedented in more than 70 years, and he lost.’
  ‘Some even viewed the charge of novelty as a calumny leveled at them by their contemporary enemies.’
  ‘The book is replete with hateful calumnies about men.’
  ‘The suggestion that the knights had previously had any communication with King Henry is a gross calumny.’
  ‘That's her privilege, but I shan't forget the calumny in a hurry.’
  ‘I resent the calumny that they've heaped on him.’
  ‘The girls were doubtless out for a good time but they were perfectly law - abiding women and the calumny has unfairly stuck.’
  ‘As for my getting more and more curmudgeonly, that is an outright calumny).’
  ‘I'd just like to say that, having recently returned from Tangiers, this is a complete calumny against a fine bunch of traders.’
  ‘Some people will tell you that it rains in Wales most days but that's a vicious calumny.’
  ‘In an age of magnificent oratory, he was revered among the Irish for rejecting the calumnies against them made by a prominent, bigoted English historian of the times.’
  ‘The counter-argument is that anonymity permits total calumnies to be propagated without punishment.’
  ‘Do you think the government should step in at that point and put a stop to these calumnies?’
  ‘She is the victim of a terrible calumny for which cheats in her own profession must bear the blame.’
  ‘Secure in the knowledge he cannot fight back, the press is free to pursue him, committing to print whatever calumnies it likes.’
  ‘We've been reminding him of all the calumnies and vituperations and bombast he has heaped upon the trade unionists of this country in recent years.’
  slander, defamation, defamation of character, character assassination, misrepresentation of character, evil-speaking, calumniation, libel
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verbverb calumnies, verb calumnying, verb calumnied

[with object] formal

Slander (someone).
‘That passage takes us closer to the reason why he has been hated and calumnied for so long.’
- ‘What I don't believe is that it is necessary to calumny it with things it does not teach or believe.’
- ‘She has exposed herself to calumny from nearly all sides and may have dealt her career a mortal blow.’
- ‘Indeed, clubs play on that calumny to cover their tracks, ever ready with an insinuation or well-placed leak concerning the real reason behind a manager's departure.’
- ‘The business plan is to use all that calumny and controversy to make money off news-stand sales but it doesn't seem to be working and ad revenues are small.’