calumnies in English

noun

1

the making of false and defamatory statements in order to damage someone's reputation; slander.

You risk committing the sin of calumny .

synonyms: slander, defamation (of character), character assassination, libel, vilification, traducement, obloquy, verbal abuse, mudslinging, trash-talk, contumely

noun

slander, defamation (of character), character assassination, libel, vilification, traducement, obloquy, verbal abuse, mudslinging, trash-talk, contumely
aspersion, defamation, slander, denigration
obloquy, defamation, hatchet job, traducement, calumniation

Use "calumnies" in a sentence

1. He accused the press of publishing vicious calumnies.

2. The book-binder, book-printer and book-seller Confuted; or, The author's vindication of himself from the calumnies in a paper industriously dispers'd by one Edlin, together with some observations on the history of the Bible as it is at present publish'd by the said Edlin by Thomas Stackhouse, unknown edition,

3. The Apologie pour les Casuistes contre les calomnies des jansénistes (Defence of casuists against the calumnies of Jansenists) by the Jesuit Georges Pirot (1599–1659), published anonymously in Paris in 1657, was censured by the Faculty of Theology of the Sorbonne; two years later (after the author’s death), the book was condemned by the