Crossword-Solution: CALUMNIATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Calumniate | v. t. | To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel. |
| Calumniate | v. i. | To propagate evil reports with a design to injure the reputation of another; to make purposely false charges of some offense or crime. |
We have 45 clues for the answer “CALUMNIATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Villify. | 3 answers |
| Trash-talk | 3 answers |
| ATTACK the reputation of | 3 answers |
| ATTACK reputation | 3 answers |
| denunciate | 6 answers |
| blackwash | 11 answers |
| Scandalize | 12 answers |
| Accuse falsely | 13 answers |
| make black | 21 answers |
| Scandalise | 21 answers |
| belie | 23 answers |
| Deprecate | 24 answers |
| traduce | 24 answers |
| BACKBITE | 27 answers |
| Vilify | 29 answers |
| Misrepresent | 31 answers |
| Libel | 31 answers |
| Decry | 41 answers |
| Slander | 41 answers |
| Defame | 43 answers |
| Accuse | 47 answers |
| minify | 47 answers |
| Badmouth | 47 answers |
| asperse | 48 answers |
| Denigrate | 48 answers |
| Mis-behave | 54 answers |
| Belittle | 54 answers |
| discolour | 54 answers |
| Tarnish | 58 answers |
| Stain | 59 answers |
| Disparage | 60 answers |
| Soil | 63 answers |
| Denounce | 63 answers |
| Blacken | 65 answers |
| Disgrace | 65 answers |
| Malign | 66 answers |
| Darken | 67 answers |
| De-file? | 68 answers |
| Affront | 77 answers |
| Taint | 80 answers |
| Blemish | 81 answers |
| Blame | 81 answers |
| Lower | 81 answers |
| Abuse | 85 answers |
| Ruin | 100 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AZMECE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CALUMNIATE (5)
Slander (etymologically the same as scandal) and calumniate, from the Latin, have in common the sense of circulating reports to a man's injury from unworthy or malicious motives.
Men asperse their neighbors by malignant insinuations; they defame by advancing charges to blacken or sully their fair fame; they slander or calumniate by spreading injurious reports which are false, or by magnifying slight faults into serious errors or crimes.
Figuratively, of persons and things not religiously sacred, but held in high honor: To calumniate; to revile; to abuse.
Thank Heaven! I know not how to calumniate my kind; and I have too strong a desire to seek for the reason of things to be willing to believe in criminal conspiracies.
There are adherents of each of the four French parties--Legitimists, Orleanists, Imperialists, and Republicans--in this little mountain-town; and they all hate, loathe, decry, and calumniate each other.
Quotes with CALUMNIATE (2)
Calumniate calumniate there will always be something which sticks.
As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny there will be found reviewers to calumniate.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1962–2023).