Word Finder - calumnies

definition

A false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing.

definition

Falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another.

example

Accusations of abuse were pure extortive calumny in a malicious bid to make money.

synonyms

• calumniousness
• defamation
• obloquy
• traducement
• vilification

definition

To make false accusations or levy false charges against a person with the intent to tarnish that person's reputation or standing; to calumniate.

Every bond of intercourse was broken, and in the Catholic Churches the worst calumnies were retailed about the deceased prophets and the leaders of the societies they had founded.

There was an end to the calumnies circulated against her, based on the poetical homage rendered her by Theobald IV., count of Champagne, and the prolonged stay in Paris of the papal legate, Romano Bonaventura, cardinal of Sant' Angelo.

Richard had, however, denounced the calumnies, and at once recalled his uncle.

So deeply wounded was the hero by these calumnies that when in 1619 he was sent against the Turks he publicly declared that he would never return alive unless victorious.

Scaliger undoubtedly shows that Scioppius committed more blunders than he corrected, that his book literally bristles with pure lies and baseless calumnies; but he does not succeed in adducing a single proof either of his father's descent from the La Scala family, or of any single event narrated by Julius as happening to himself or any member of this family prior to his arrival at Agen.

Hamilton's pamphlets were entitled " A Full Vindication of the Measures of the Congress from the Calumnies of their Enemies," and " The Farmer Refuted."

During the winter the calumnies against the queen were revived by Fitzharris,who, however, before his execution in 1681 confessed to their falsity; and after the revival of the king's influence subsequent to the Oxford parliament, the queen's position was no more assailed.

He is said to have published a biography of Aristotle, in which the calumnies of other biographers were refuted.

The veneration in which he was held by the Athenians serves to dissipate the calumnies which have been thrown on his character by Andreas, and the whole tone of his writings bespeaks a man of the highest integrity and purest morality.