Calumniate (verb)
kal-um-nee-ayt
to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
1545–55; Latin calumniātus (past participle of calumniārī to accuse falsely, trick), equivalent to calumni(a) calumny + -ātus-ate1
Example sentences
“We could hear the young men calumniate us and our reputations before we’d even left!”
