Calumny Synonyms, Calumny Antonyms

calumny mid-15c., from M.Fr. calomnie (15c.), from L. calumnia "trickery, subterfuge, misrepresentation, malicious charge," from calvi "to trick, deceive," from PIE base *kel-, *kol- "to deceive, confuse" (cf. Gk. kelein "to bewitch, seduce, beguile," Goth. holon "to deceive," O.N. hol "praise, flattery," O.E. hol "slander," holian "to slander").

Example Sentences for calumny

We are here to open the campaign, not with slander and calumny, but to unite and draw closely to the old party all its members.

He faced a coalition of church, industry and popular press, and a nastier one of slander and whispered calumny.

We also have the letters which depict a sorrowful heart that suffered so much from the political calumny of his day.

Then he would not have to seek office, in itself an undignified procedure which opens to calumny his entire past.