calumnious
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calumnious
adjective abusive, blackening, castigatory, caustic, censorious, comminatory, compromising, condemnatory, contemptuous, criminatory, criminosus, damaging, damnatory, defamatory, denigratory, denunciatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derogatory, detractory, disapproving, discreditable, disparaging, ignoble, ignominious, imprecatory, imputative, injurious, insinuating, insolent, libelous, maledictory, malevolent, obloquial, offensive, opprobrious, pejorative, scandalous, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, smearing, unflattering, vilifying, vituperativeAssociated concepts: contempt of court, defamation
See also: contemptuous, derogatory, libelous, pejorative