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Definition of Calumnies

Calumnies
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. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. --Shak.

Meaning of Calumnies from wikipedia

- reproduces, by any means, calumnies and injuries made by others, will be punished as responsible himself for the calumnies and injuries whenever its content...
- The Calumny of Apelles is a panel painting in tempera by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. Based on the description of a lost ancient...
- Sinezona calumnior is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Scissurellidae, the little slit snails....
- the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Hor**** of Calumny – Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear. I doubt if the Republican Party...
- Marie Boozer (1846 – 1908) was an American socialite and countess. From provincial antebellum South Carolina, she escaped with the Union army to New York...
- description of a lost painting by Apelles (4th century BC) called the Calumny of Apelles, which some Renaissance painters followed, most famously Botticelli...
- betra**** by his ambitious secretary Antonio Pérez, who published incredible calumnies against his former master; this allowed Pérez's tales to spread all around...
- emphatically enough, and that contradicters are either silenced or smothered in calumny." This was to be true in Germany and backed up with their army making it...
- a Scottish Tory. Bute's opponents worked against him by spreading the calumny that he was having an affair with the King's mother, and by exploiting...
- [Ida B. Wells] is allowed to live and utter such loathsome and repulsive calumnies is a volume of evidence as to the wonderful patience of Southern whites...