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Found in thesaurus: disparagement, derogation, depreciation, attack

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calumny
n. slander, libel; defamation, slur

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Defamation
Defamation—also calumny, vilification, and traducement—is the communication of a false statement that harms the reputation of an individual person, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation.

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calumny
Noun
1. a malicious attack
(synonym) defamation, obloquy, traducement, hatchet job
(hypernym) disparagement, depreciation, derogation
(hyponym) character assassination, assassination, blackwash
(derivation) defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch
2. an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
(synonym) aspersion, slander, defamation, denigration
(hypernym) attack
(derivation) defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch


Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Calumny
(n.)
False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction.
  

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Calumny
To dream that you are the subject of calumny, denotes that your interests will suffer at the hands of evil-minded gossips. For a young woman, it warns her to be careful of her conduct, as her movements are being critically observed by persons who claim to be her friends.
  

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or "What's in a dream": a scientific and practical exposition; By Gustavus Hindman, 1910. For the open domain e-text see: Guttenberg Project