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Calumniously

Calumnious \Ca*lum"ni*ous\, a. [L. calumniosus.] Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports.

Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.
--Shak.

Syn: . Slanderous; defamatory; scurrilous; opprobrious; derogatory; libelous; abusive. -- Ca*lum"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Ca*lum"ni*ous*ness, n.

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calumniously

adv. In the manner of a falsification intended to discredit another.

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calumniously

adv. in a false and slanderous and defamatory manner; with slander or calumny [syn: slanderously]

Usage examples of "calumniously".

Mr Wharton had declared calumniously more than once to an intimate friend,--had not an H in his vocabulary.