calumnious

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ca=lum=ni=ous

CIDE DICTIONARY

calumnious, 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."

. Slanderous; defamatory; scurrilous; opprobrious; derogatory; libelous; abusive.

ROGET THESAURUS

calumnious

Detraction

N detraction, disparagement, depreciation, vilification, obloquy, scurrility, scandal, defamation, aspersion, traducement, slander, calumny, obtrectation, evil-speaking, backbiting, scandalum magnatum, personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade, chronique scandaleuse, roorback, sarcasm, cynicism, criticism (disapprobation), invective, envenomed tongue, spretae injuria formae, personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade, chronique scandaleuse, roorback, detractor, detracting, defamatory, detractory, derogatory, deprecatory, catty, disparaging, libelous, scurrile, scurrilous, abusive, foul- spoken, foul-tongued, foul-mouthed, slanderous, calumnious, calumniatory, sarcastic, sardonic, sarcastic, satirical, cynical, critical, damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, and without sneering, teach the rest to sneer, another lie nailed to the counter, cut men's throats with whisperings, foul whisperings are abroad, soft-buzzing slander, virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.