It seems probable that the licentiousness ordinarily imputed to Sappho may be a calumny.
Source: tatoeba (909071)
Calumny
//ˈkæləmni//
Synonyms for "calumny" (112 found)
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Related words (56)
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4 entriesSynonyms
6 entriesderived
5 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
11 entriesTranslations
81 translations across 38 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- δῐᾰβολή noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Arabic
4 entries- اِفْتِرَاء noun (false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing)
- بُهْتَان noun (false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing)
- طَعْن noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- طَعْن verb (to make false accusations or levy false charges against a person with the intent to tarnish that person's reputation or standing — see also calumniate)
Aramaic
1 entries- ܓܘܢܝܐ noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Bengali
3 entries- এলজাম noun (false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing)
- এলজাম noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- এলজাম দেওয়া verb (to make false accusations or levy false charges against a person with the intent to tarnish that person's reputation or standing — see also calumniate)
Bulgarian
1 entries- клевета́ noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Catalan
1 entries- calúmnia noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 唌 noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- 誹謗 /诽谤 noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- 讒言 /谗言 noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- 誹謗 /诽谤 verb (to make false accusations or levy false charges against a person with the intent to tarnish that person's reputation or standing — see also calumniate)
Esperanto
1 entries- kalumnio noun (false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing)
Finnish
3 entries- herjaus noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- panettelu noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- vääristely noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
French
1 entries- calomnie noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Georgian
1 entries- ცილისწამება noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
German
4 entries- Rufmord noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- Verleumdung noun (false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing)
- Verleumdung noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- verleumden verb (to make false accusations or levy false charges against a person with the intent to tarnish that person's reputation or standing — see also calumniate)
Greek
1 entries- αγκύλι noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Hiligaynon
1 entries- butáng-bútang noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Hungarian
2 entries- rágalmazás noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- rágalom noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Icelandic
4 entries- illmælgi noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- illmæli noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- níð noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- rógur noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Ido
1 entries- kalumnio noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Irish
1 entries- guilmne noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Italian
1 entries- calunnia noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Japanese
1 entries- 中傷 noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Latin
3 entries- calumnia noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- crīmen noun (false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing)
- crīminātiō noun (false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing)
Lithuanian
1 entries- šmeižtas noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Norwegian
4 entries- baksnakk noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- baksnakking noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- baktalelse noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- baktaling noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Old Armenian
2 entries- բանեար noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- կտտանք noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Old English
1 entries- hōl noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Polish
2 entries- kalumnia noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- oszczerstwo noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Portuguese
2 entries- calúnia noun (false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing)
- calúnia noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Romanian
1 entries- defaimă noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Russian
4 entries- изве́т noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- клевета́ noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- наве́т noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- нагово́р noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- mì-theist noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- kleveta noun (false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing)
- kleveta noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- objeda noun (false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing)
- клевета noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Spanish
1 entries- calumnia noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Swedish
1 entries- förtal noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Tagalog
2 entries- pananakwat noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- sakwat noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Thai
3 entries- การบิดเบือน noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- การป้ายสี noun (false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing)
- การใส่ร้าย noun (false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing)
Turkish
4 entries- bühtan noun (false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing)
- bühtan noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- iftira noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
- karalama noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Ukrainian
1 entries- на́клеп noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Uzbek
1 entries- tuhmat noun (falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another)
Sample sentences
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There's something even worse than calumny, it's truth.
Source: tatoeba (1554135)
But there also the herdsmen of Gerara strove against the herdsmen of Isaac, saying: It is our water. Wherefore he called the name of the well, on occasion of that which had happened, Calumny.
Source: tatoeba (7867901)
The Gospels articulated a calumny that would be used for millennia to justify the slaughter of Jews.
Source: tatoeba (8832211)
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