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.
Thanks to good consultation, the falsely accused would be able to prove their innocence, while the evil plaintiffs would be charged with calumny.
His arbitrary arrest, together with the calumnies and evidence fabricated against him, had helped to forge the revolutionary.
Secrecy is of primary importance in societies in which relationships are so personalised, and in which intrigue, calumny, and denunciation are important political strategies.
That is surely an unjustified calumny on an honourable profession.
That again is a calumny, and it has no significance.
He must know that that is a calumny.
Therefore, he said, the charge of malingering was a false calumny.
It is a myth; an absurd calumny that no objective observer sitting in a court would conceivably support.
