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Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports.

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  1. a. Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports.
  2. adj. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
  3. Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports. Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes. Shak. Syn: Slanderous; defamatory; scurrilous; opprobrious; derogatory; libelous; abusive. Syn: -- Ca*lum"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Ca*lum"ni*ous*ness, n.
  4. Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injuriousto reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports.Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes. Shak.
  5. s (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign