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calumniate

[ kuh-luhm-nee-eyt ]

verb (used with object)

, ca·lum·ni·at·ed, ca·lum·ni·at·ing.
  1. to make false and malicious statements about; slander.


calumniate

/ kəˈlʌmnɪˌeɪt /

verb

  1. tr to slander
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • caˈlumniˌator, noun
  • caˈlumniable, adjective
  • caˌlumniˈation, noun
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Other Words From

  • ca·lumni·ation noun
  • ca·lumni·ator noun
  • nonca·lumni·ating adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of calumniate1

1545–55; < Latin calumniātus (past participle of calumniārī to accuse falsely, trick), equivalent to calumni ( a ) calumny + -ātus -ate 1
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Example Sentences

Adams read in the newspapers that Jefferson had compiled “a Magazine of slips of newspapers, and pamphlets, vilifying, calumniating and defaming you.”

One person's cordiality is calumniated by dirty minds as sexual predation.

He went out more like Nixon, his accomplishments tainted by allegations of criminality, his circle of trust constricted by banishments, betrayals and arrests until it included few besides his temperamental wife and calumniating eldest son.

“But I say to you: Love your enemies: Do good to them that hate you: And pray for them that persecute and calumniate you,” Jesus says in that Gospel verse.

I’m putting this politely: They have been calumniated and abused for centuries.

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