Calumnious
Calumnious adjective - Causing or intended to cause unjust injury to a person's good name.
Usage example: a calumnious campaign ad that went well beyond the negativity to which voters had become so richly accustomed
Denigrative is a synonym for calumnious. In some cases you can use "Denigrative" instead an adjective "Calumnious".
Denigrative
Denigrative adjective - Intended to make a person or thing seem of little importance or value.
Usage example: thanked her for the gift and then added the denigrative aside, “Not that it's anything special!”
Calumnious is a synonym for denigrative. You can use "Calumnious" instead an adjective "Denigrative".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- insulting and calumnious
- insulting and denigrative
- scornful and calumnious
- scornful and denigrative
- deprecatory and calumnious
- deprecatory and denigrative
- depreciative and calumnious
- depreciative and denigrative
- disparaging and calumnious
- disparaging and denigrative
- abusive and calumnious
- abusive and denigrative
- scandalous and calumnious
- scandalous and denigrative
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Denigrative and Calumnious. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/calumnious/denigrative
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