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noun, plural -nies.
1.
a false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something: The speech was considered a calumny of the administration.
2.
the act of uttering calumnies; slander; defamation.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin calumnia, equivalent to calumn-, perhaps originally a middle participle of calvī to deceive + -ia -y3)
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin calumnia, equivalent to calumn-, perhaps originally a middle participle of calvī to deceive + -ia -y3)
Synonyms
2. libel, vilification, calumniation, derogation.
2. libel, vilification, calumniation, derogation.
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Calumny
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Example Sentences
- He faced a coalition of church, industry and popular press, and a nastier one of slander and whispered calumny.
- We also have the letters which depict a sorrowful heart that suffered so much from the political calumny of his day.
- Then he would not have to seek office, in itself an undignified procedure which opens to calumny his entire past.
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Word Origin & History
calumny
mid-15c., from M.Fr. calomnie (15c.), from L. calumnia "trickery, subterfuge, misrepresentation, malicious charge," from calvi "to trick, deceive," from PIE base *kel-, *kol- "to deceive, confuse" (cf. Gk. kelein "to bewitch, seduce, beguile," Goth. holon "to deceive," O.N. hol "praise, flattery," O.E.
EXPANDhol "slander," holian "to slander").
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