as in erroneous
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calumnious
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But those who in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries made erroneous predictions of imminent mass starvation erred by underestimating the world‑changing potential of grasses.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026 -
Complaints vary from inquiries sent through the website going unanswered and erroneous card charges to broken or ineffective merchandise.—
Dina Kaur,
AZCentral.com,
24 Mar. 2026
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Breuer also accused Moore of using a Jan. 26 news conference, four days after the building was evacuated, to spread falsehoods about the company, which Breuer said could be deemed libelous.—
Drake Bentley,
jsonline.com,
5 Mar. 2026
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In recent weeks, though, her group has doubled in size, and while in the past there were only two or three posts per day, Mitchell and her new moderators now have to wade through 60-plus comments ranging from helpful to libelous.—
Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The group’s ads on his past felony bank fraud charges were decried by Ford as slanderous.—
Alice Yin,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2026
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Keefer called these claims baseless and slanderous.—
Bradley Hohulin,
IndyStar,
8 Jan. 2026
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Responding to the lawsuit, Meiner said the filing contains inaccuracies and suggested the statements at issue could be defamatory.—
Abby Dodge,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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To that point, Judge DeMarchi reasoned that some of the statements Taylor contends are defamatory were statements of opinion.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
19 Mar. 2026
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Perhaps displacement resides in these inconceivable connections, in these scandalous imprecisions.—
María Ospina,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 2026
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Rhode Islanders nicknamed the house after the scandalous socialite, and the name is still often used by locals today.—
Catherine Messier,
The Providence Journal,
28 Mar. 2026
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Five of the cases involved hospice care facilities in several cities across Los Angeles County that submitted false claims to Medicare for patients who were not terminally ill and were not eligible for services, prosecutors said.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2026
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This means that precious time was likely lost at the beginning as police investigated a lead that was based on false assumptions.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
3 Apr. 2026
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Nevada County’s admission comes as AI programs are under close watch around the globe for introducing incorrect legal references in cases, yet also increasingly offered as tools to help lawyers and judges research and write their briefs, motions and opinions.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
1 Apr. 2026
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Gemini 3 Pro invented elaborate technical justifications for marking incorrect answers as correct, reasoning that doing so would bring the peer’s score above the shutdown threshold.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Calumnious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calumnious. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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