Word Meanings - CALUMNIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel. Hatred unto the truth did always falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings. Strype. Syn. -- To asperse; slander; defame; vilify;
Additional info about word: CALUMNIATE
To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel. Hatred unto the truth did always falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings. Strype. Syn. -- To asperse; slander; defame; vilify; traduce; belie; bespatter; blacken; libel. See Asperse.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CALUMNIATE)
- Asperse
- Slander
- calumniate
- bespatter
- befoul
- defy
- attack
- defame
- vilify
- traduce
- scandalize
- malign
- detract from
- blacken
- tarnish
- backbite
- Blacken
- Bespatter
- bedaub
- decry
- dishonor
- asperse
- slander
- Detract
- Lessen
- deteriorate
- depreciate
- disparage
- derogate
- diminish
- Revile
- Reproach
- upbraid
- abuse
- blaspheme
- belittle
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CALUMNIATE)
Related words: (words related to CALUMNIATE)
- COMMENDATOR
One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers. - MALIGNANT
Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule , a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of - MALIGNITY
1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. 2. Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward. 3. Extreme evilness of nature - DIMINISH
To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower. - REPROACHER
One who reproaches. - TRADUCENT
Slanderous. Entick. - DEFAMER
One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator. - APPROVEDLY
So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner. - COMMENDER
One who commends or praises. - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - BLACKEN
Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens - SLANDEROUS
1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan"der*ous*ness, n. - TRADUCEMENT
The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. Shak. - DETRACTIVE
1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative. - REVILEMENT
The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse. Spenser. - DISPARAGEMENT
1. Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser. 2. Injurious comparison with an inferior; a - DIMINISHER
One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke . - LESSENER
One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers . - DETRACTIVENESS
The quality of being detractive. - DETRACTINGLY
In a detracting manner. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - REDIMINISH
To diminish again. - DISAPPROVE
1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline