Ca*lum"ni*ous (?), a. [L. calumniosus.]
Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports.
Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.
Shak.
. Slanderous; defamatory; scurrilous; opprobrious; derogatory; libelous; abusive.
-- Ca*lum"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Ca*lum"ni*ous*ness, n.
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