'Calumniousness' definitions:
Definition of 'Calumniousness'
From: GCIDE
- Calumnious \Ca*lum"ni*ous\, a. [L. calumniosus.] Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports. [1913 Webster]
- Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes. --Shak.
- Syn: . Slanderous; defamatory; scurrilous; opprobrious; derogatory; libelous; abusive. -- {Ca*lum"ni*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Ca*lum"ni*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]