calumniate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
    sully; smirch; smear; defame; asperse; slander; denigrate; besmirch.
    • The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation

WordNet

Ca*lum"ni*ate intransitive verb
Etymology
L. calumniatus, p. p. of calumniari. See Calumny, and cf. Challenge, v. t.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Calumniated; present participle & verbal noun calumniating
Definitions
  1. To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.
    Hatred unto the truth did always falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings. Strype.
Ca*lum"ni*ate intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To propagate evil reports with a design to injure the reputation of another; to make purposely false charges of some offense or crime.

Webster 1913