Calumniate

Quick meaning: Calumniate is a verb meaning (transitive) To make hurtful untrue comments about.

Meaning

(transitive) To make hurtful untrue comments about.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To levy a false charge against, especially of a vague offense, with the intent to damage someone's reputation or standing.

Example Sentences

Hatred unto the truth did always falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings.

I missed her when she was not on the stage, in spite of the absorbing interest of that most calumniated and ill-used person, the Jew. (Speaking of Fanny Kemble as Portia)

There are adherents of each of the four French parties—Legitimists, Orleanists, Imperialists, and Republicans—in this little mountain-town; and they all hate, loathe, decry, and calumniate each other.

During the period of Pergamos great experiments were gone through by the Church which saw a false church appear near her, the latter was even noticeable in th periods of Ephesus and Smyrna. The synagogue of Satan, the false church when it appeared, began to calumniate the true Church terribly; the latter has always been disowned by those who left her in order to become faithless disciples, also by false brethren and by the world.

Word Forms

• calumniates
• calumniating
• calumniated

Synonyms for calumniate

Depending on context, synonyms include diss, slander, traduce, assassinate, asperse, backbite.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include slander, denigrate, defame, sully, besmirch, smirch.

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