Calumniatory

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Slanderous: as, “calumniatory information,”
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Containing calumny; slanderous.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Containing calumny; slanderous.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
  • Word Usage
    "There are twelve or thirteen of them brought here by him unaccounted for; hear his prevarications in the jail and elsewhere: and if he is an innocent man, cruelly imprisoned under an illegal warrant, and these vile, calumniatory libels, are actually this"
    Equivalent
    harmful  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning