Word of the Day – Calumniate

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!”