calumniousadjective
/kəˈlʌm.ni.əs//kəˈlʌm.ni.əs/formalfalse and damaging to someone's reputation:
Most of the article is just a calumnious personal attack.
More examples
- The suggestion that he misappropriated funds is calumnious and politically motivated.
- These vile aspersions against his character proved to be false and calumnious.
- People have a right to protection from such calumnious insinuations.
- The address contained a calumnious and insulting accusation.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Damaging reputation
- besmirch
- black mark
- blacken
- blot
- blot your copybook idiom
- calumniate
- drag sb's name through the mire/mud idiom
- give a dog a bad name idiom
- hurl/throw/sling mud at sb idiom
- impugn
- libel
- mud
- poison
- show someone in a bad light idiom
- slander
- stab
- stain
- sully
- taint
- vilify
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