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Calumniousness

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Calumnious \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.

   Syn: . Slanderous; defamatory; scurrilous; opprobrious;
        derogatory; libelous; abusive. -- {Ca*lum"ni*ous*ly},
        adv. -- {Ca*lum"ni*ous*ness}, n.
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