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Synonyms & 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 for calumnious
- defamatory,
- libelous
- (or libellous),
- scandalous,
- slanderous
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