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calumnious

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of calumnious

causing or intended to cause unjust injury to a person's good name

a calumnious campaign ad that went well beyond the negativity to which voters had become so richly accustomed

Synonyms of calumnious

defamatory, libelous (or libellous), scandalous, slanderous

Words Related to calumnious

erroneous, false, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, invalid, off, unsound, untrue, wrong

denigrative, denigratory, depreciative, depreciatory, derogatory, detractive, disparaging, uncomplimentary, unfavorable, unflattering

invidious, objectionable

maligning, traducing, vilifying

hateful, malevolent, malicious, spiteful

Near Antonyms of calumnious

appreciative, complimentary, favorable

adulatory, commendatory, eulogistic, hagiographic (also hagiographical), laudatory

accurate, correct, errorless, factual, right, sound, true, valid

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