All calumniation synonyms

noun calumniation

• obloquy — censure, blame, or abusive language aimed at a person or thing, especially by numerous persons or by the general public.
• aspersion — a disparaging or malicious remark; slanderous accusation (esp in the phrase cast aspersions (on))
• defamation — Defamation is the damaging of someone's good reputation by saying something bad and untrue about them.
• malice — desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.
• denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
• slander — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
• libel — the false accusation that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals: blood libels that spread throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
• traducement — to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame: to traduce someone's character.
• calumny — Calumny or a calumny is an untrue statement made about someone in order to reduce other people's respect and admiration for them.
• vilification — to speak ill of; defame; slander.
• character assassination — A character assassination is a deliberate attempt to destroy someone's reputation, especially by criticizing them in an unfair and dishonest way when they are not present.