Definitions for calumnies

calumnies cal·um·ny

Spelling: [kal-uh m-nee]
IPA: /ˈkæl əm ni/

Calumnies is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 738 anagrams from letters in calumnies (aceilmnsu).

Definitions for calumnies

noun

  1. a false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something:
  2. the act of uttering calumnies; slander; defamation.

Origin of calumnies

1400-50; late Middle English Latin calumnia, equivalent to calumn-, perhaps originally a middle participle of calvī to deceive + -ia -y3)

Examples for calumnies

If ever calumny aims the poisoned shaft at them, may friendship be by to ward the blow!

In impotent rage the discomfited Jews resorted to invective and calumny.

calumny should be the weapon of those only who have to defend not ideas, but crimes.

Slander and calumny can go abroad without a dread of consequences.

calumny is a little wind, but it raises such a terrible tempest.

One imagines that the latest pope, a Jesuit, is familiar with the centuries of calumny that have been heaped upon his forebears.

It is there one lives exempt from the assaults of censure, detraction, and calumny.

Some they bought—some they ruined—some they intimidated—some they destroyed by calumny.

Oh, but how the ragged tooth of calumny gnawed his very heart!

But who hasn't had his best actions misinterpreted by calumny?

Word Value for calumnies
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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