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calumnate

calumnate is the misconstruction of calumniate.

Meaning of calumniate

Verb

calumniate (third-person singular simple present calumniates, present participle calumniating, simple past and past participle calumniated)

  1. (transitive) To make hurtful untrue comments about.
    • Hatred unto the truth did always falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings.a. 1555, John Hooper, A Brief Treatise respecting Judge Hales
    Synonyms:
    diss, slander
  2. (transitive) To levy a false charge against, especially of a vague offense, with the intent to damage someone's reputation or standing.

Forms of calumnate

third-person singular presentcalumnates
present participlecalumnating
past participlecalumnated
pastcalumnated

Questions about calumnate

What is calumnate the misconstruction of?
Calumnate is the misconstruction of calumniate.

Words near calumnate in the dictionary

  1. calumenin
  2. calumet
  3. Calumet County
  4. calumetite
  5. calumets
  6. calumnate
  7. calumnates
  8. calumniate
  9. calumniated
  10. calumniates
  11. calumniating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: calumnate (page history and authors); calumniate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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