Definitions for calumny

calumny cal·um·ny

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

Calumny is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in calumny (aclmnuy).

Definitions for calumny

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 calumny

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

Examples for calumny

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for calumny
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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