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Calumnious

🔄 Synonyms of "Calumnious"

9 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
harmful	Causing or likely to cause harm or damage; injurious.
denigratory	Tending to denigrate.
libelous	Defamatory, libeling, referring to something that causes harm to someone's reputation especially with malice or disregard.
libellous	(British spelling) Alternative spelling of libelous. [Defamatory, libeling, referring to something that causes harm to someone's reputation especially with malice or disregard.]
defamatory	Damaging to someone's reputation, especially if untrue.
slanderous	(of something said) Both untrue and harmful to a reputation.
denigrating	(used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
denigrative	Synonym of denigratory.
calumniatory	Containing calumny; slanderous.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
calumniatory	Containing calumny; slanderous.
slanderous	(of something said) Both untrue and harmful to a reputation.
defamatory	Damaging to someone's reputation, especially if untrue.
libelous	Defamatory, libeling, referring to something that causes harm to someone's reputation especially with malice or disregard.
libellous	(British spelling) Alternative spelling of libelous. [Defamatory, libeling, referring to something that causes harm to someone's reputation especially with malice or disregard.]
denigrative	Synonym of denigratory.
denigratory	Tending to denigrate.
harmful	Causing or likely to cause harm or damage; injurious.
denigrating	(used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
calumniative	Containing calumny; slanderous.
contumelious	(archaic, literary) Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; exhibiting an insolent or disdainful attitude.
duplicitous	Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.
aspersive	Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous.
charlatanish	Resembling or befitting a charlatan; fraudulent.
slandersome	(informal, chiefly dialectal) Characterised or marked by slander.
debateful	(obsolete) Contentious, argumentative, full of strife.
declamatory	Pretentiously lofty in style; bombastic.
cavillous	prone to caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbling, bickering.
querulentnoun	A habitually suspicious or querimonious person.
specious	Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.

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