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Calumnious

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Possessing the traits of calumny.

    "...they must be his companions in some humble abode, in some remote obscurity; for it was in virtuous privacy only that he could hope to find a shelter from an ill-judging and calumnious world."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign wordnet

Etymology

From Late Latin calumniōsus.

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