calumniate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin calumniātus, perfect active participle of calumnior (“I accuse falsely”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]calumniate (third-person singular simple present calumniates, present participle calumniating, simple past and past participle calumniated)
- (transitive) To make hurtful untrue comments about.
- a. 1555, John Hooper, A Brief Treatise respecting Judge Hales:
- Hatred unto the truth did always falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 229:
- I missed her when she was not on the stage, in spite of the absorbing interest of that most calumniated and ill-used person, the Jew. (Speaking of Fanny Kemble as Portia)
- 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, “chapter 1”, in Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes:
- There are adherents of each of the four French parties—Legitimists, Orleanists, Imperialists, and Republicans—in this little mountain-town; and they all hate, loathe, decry, and calumniate each other.
- (transitive) To levy a false charge against, especially of a vague offense, with the intent to damage someone's reputation or standing.
Synonyms
[edit]- (to make hurtful untrue statements): slander
- See also Thesaurus:defame
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to make hurtful untrue statements
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Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]calumniāte
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]calumniate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of calumniar combined with te