calumny

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
calumny
    n 1: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious
         misrepresentation of someone's words or actions [syn:
         {defamation}, {calumny}, {calumniation}, {obloquy},
         {traducement}, {hatchet job}]
    2: an abusive attack on a person's character or good name [syn:
       {aspersion}, {calumny}, {slander}, {defamation},
       {denigration}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Calumny \Cal"um*ny\, n.; pl. {Calumnies}. [L. calumnia, fr.
   calvi to devise tricks, deceive; cf. F. calomnie. Cf.
   {Challenge}, n.]
   False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or
   reported, to the injury of another; malicious
   misrepresentation; slander; detraction. "Infamous calumnies."
   --Motley.
   [1913 Webster]

         Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt
         not escape calumny.                      --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "calumny":
      abuse, animadversion, backbiting, backstabbing, belittlement,
      bitchiness, calumniation, cattiness, contumely, defamation,
      depreciation, disparagement, invective, libel, obloquy, opprobrium,
      reflection, revilement, scandal, scurrility, slander, stricture,
      tale, traducement, vilification, vituperation
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