Calumny

Definitions: Calumny

Calumny

Noun

1. A malicious attack.

2. The act of defaming.

Date "calumny" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Calumny \Cal"um*ny\, noun; plural Calumnies. [Latin expression calumnia, from calvi to devise tricks, deceive; compare to French calomnie. Compare to Challenge, noun.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To dream that you are the subject of calumny, denotes that your interests will suffer at the hands of evil-minded gossips. For a young woman, it warns her to be careful of her conduct, as her movements are being critically observed by persons who claim to be her friends. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
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Synonyms: Calumny

Synonyms: aspersion (n), defamation (n), hatchet job (n), obloquy (n), slander (n), traducement (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Detraction	Noun: detraction, disparagement, depreciation, vilification, obloquy, scurrility, scandal, defamation, aspersion, traducement, slander, calumny, obtrectation, evil-speaking, backbiting, scandalum magnatum.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Calumny

English words defined with "calumny": Calumnies ♦ Evil speaking ♦ Obtrectation. (references)

Specialty definitions using "calumny": Briars ♦ Chains ♦ Garden ♦ Midwife, Mud. (references)

Etymologies containing "calumny": traducement. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Great Parliamentary Scandals : Four Centuries of Calumny, Smear & Innuendo (reference) March to Calumny (American Military Experience) (reference) The Calumny of Apelles: A Study of the Humanist Tradition (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Diogenes of Sinope	Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
George Washington	To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny.
Horace	False praise can please, and calumny affright, none but the vicious and the hypocrite.
	Whom does false honour delight, or lying calumny terrify, except the vicious and sickly-minded?
Leighton	Calumny would soon starve and die of itself if nobody took it in and gave it lodging.
Shakespeare	Back-wounding, calumny the whitest virtue strikes.
Stanislaus	Those who ought to be most secure against calumny, are generally those who least escape it.
Tacitus	Neglected calumny soon expires; show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
William Shakespeare	Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Moldova	However, a calumny law prohibits defaming high-level public officials. (references)
	Panama	Under "gag laws" dating from the military dictatorship, the Government has legal authority to prosecute media owners and reporters for criminal libel and calumny. (references)
	Moldova	The Prosecutor General is investigating and prosecuting the former head of the Department to Combat Corruption and Organized Crime, General Nicolae Alexei, under the calumny law. (references)
Political Economy	Moldova	There were some restrictions on freedom of the press, including defamation and calumny laws that encourage self-censorship. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Calumny" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.33% of the time. "Calumny" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	93.33%	14	93,893
Adjective (general or positive)	6.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	15	N/A

Expressions using "calumny": give a handle to calumny ♦ lend a handle to calumny. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "calumny"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shpifje (backbite, calumniation, defamation, denigration, detraction, libel, mud, slander, slur, vilification), përflasje. (various references)

Arabic		‏تشويه السمعة (defalcation, denigration, discredit, malediction, smearing, vilification), ‏إفتراء (defamation, slander, slur). (various references)

Bulgarian		клевета (aspersion, backbite, defamation, libel, scandal, slander, slur, smear), злословие (calumniation, detraction, noise, obloquy, slander), лъжливо обвинение (false accusation). (various references)

Czech		pomluva (defamation, obloquy, slander, slur, smear, stab). (various references)

Farsi		رسواءی 2 (Disgrace, Dishonor(Ur), Disrepute, Ignominy, Infamy, Odium, Opprobrium, Reproach, Scandal), بهتان افترا, بدنامی (Blot, Discredit, Disrepute, Ignominy, Infamy, Notoriety, Odium, Unpopularity). (various references)

French		calomnie (makes an accusation against or casts suspicion on another of dishonourable conduct). (various references)

German		falsche Anschuldigung. (various references)

Greek		συκοφαντία (aspersion, defamation, roorback, slander), διαβολή (denigration, slander). (various references)

Hebrew		מלשי� ות (slandering), לשון �"רע (gossip, slander), עלילת שקר, �"ב�" (defamation, rumor, rumour, slander). (various references)

Hungarian		rágalom (aspersion, bat, brick-bat, libel, slander, smear-word), hamis vád (false accusation). (various references)

Indonesian		cemaran (dirt, filth, slander), tuduhan (arraignment, impeachment), fitnah (defamation, libel, obloquy, slander). (various references)

Italian		calunnia (An offence against personal honour, aspersion, calumniation, criminal defamation, in addressing a third party, in which a person, libel, makes an accusation against or casts suspicion on another of dishonourable conduct, obloquy, or disseminates such accusations or suspicions., or of other conduct that is liable to damage another's reputation, slander, slanderousness, slur, smear). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		誣言 (false charge, slander), 誣告 (false accusation, slander), 謗り (disparagement, libel, slander, vilification). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		そしり (disparagement, libel, slander, vilification), ぶ�"く (false accusation, slander), ふ�'�" (additional remarks, false charge, groundless rumor, postscript, Samantabhadra, saying in addition, silence, slander, Universal Compassion). (various references)

Pig Latin		alumnycay.(various references)

Portuguese		calúnia (aspersion, backbite, calumniation, catty, libel, obloquy, scandal, slander, vilification). (various references)

Romanian		calomnie (backbiting, defamation, dirt, libel, obloquy, scandal, slander), nãpastã (blight, calamity, curse, disaster, injustice, offence, pest, plague, slander, wrong), hulã (backbiting, blasphemy, curse, defamation, ground swell, hula-hoop, impiety, slander, swell), defãimare (defamation, disparagement, obloquy, scandal, slander), bârfealã (backbiting, gossip, scandal, slander). (various references)

Russian		клевета (aspersion, aspersions, backbite, calumniation, defamation, denigration, libel, mudslinging, slander, traducement). (various references)

Scottish		tuaileas (reproach, slander). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kleveta (aspersion, detraction, libel, obloquy, slander, slur, smear). (various references)

Spanish		calumnia (aspersion, calumniation, defamation, libel, obloquy, slander, slur, smear). (various references)

Swedish		förtal (aspersion, backbiting, blood libel, calumniation, defamation, denigration, detraction, libel, obloquy, scandal, slander, vilification). (various references)

Turkish		karalama (blackening, defamation, doodle, libel, rough copy, scandal, scrawl, scribble, smirch), iftira (aspersion, calumniation, complaint, defamation, denigration, malediction, obloquy, scandal, slander, smear, vilification), çamur atma (mudslinging). (various references)

Ukranian		неправдиве обвинувачення (calumniation), наклепницьке твердження, наклепницька чуйка, наклеп (calumniation, defamation, denigration, libel, malediction, mud, mudslinging, slander, slur, smear). (various references)

Vietnamese		lời vu khống (aspersion). (various references)

Welsh		difri%aeth (abuse). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	calumnia, ciminatio, criminatio. (various references)
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Misspellings
	"Calumny" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: callum, callumny, Calpurnia, calum, calumany, calummy, calumn, calumnt, calumy, calunmy, calunnia, Carlunie, cauumny, cluny, columny, couldny. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "calumny" (pronounced ka"lumnē)
3	-m n ē	chimney.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-l-m-n-u-y"
	-1 letter: lunacy.
	-2 letters: manly, unlay, yamun, yulan.
	-3 letters: acyl, alum, amyl, calm, caul, clam, clan, clay, culm, cyan, cyma, lacy, luna, luny, many, maul, maun, myna, ulan, ulna, yuan, yuca.
	-4 letters: amu, any, cam, can, cay, cum, lac, lam, lay, lum, mac, man, may, mun, nam, nay, yam, yum.
	-5 letters: al, am, an, ay, la, ma, mu, my, na, nu, um, un, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-l-m-n-u-y"
	+3 letters: communally, musicianly.
	+4 letters: communality, masculinely, masculinity, monocularly, multiagency, municipally, numerically.
	+5 letters: calumniously, communicably, consummately, ecumenically, incommutably, incomputably, inconsumably, mendaciously, municipality, unicamerally.
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