0 (the act of making) a statement about someone that is not true and is intended to damage the reputation of that person: --
He was subjected to the most vicious calumny, but he never complained and never sued.
This is a wholly unjustified calumny of his conduct in this instance or, indeed, in his whole political life.
He faced with superb courage, calumny, and misrepresentation, bitter calumny and misrepresentation in his own country, misunderstanding as well, and to a certain extent unpopularity.
Perhaps he will forgive me a measure of calumny.
The idea that we as employers are callous as to the interests of our men is a calumny.
At the same time, it has been subjected to hatred, calumny, spite and vilification, and it has triumphed over all those things.
I said the suggestion that progressive education denied the difference between right and wrong was a total calumny.
Anyone who seeks to maintain the contrary is guilty of base calumny.
It is a myth; an absurd calumny that no objective observer sitting in a court would conceivably support.