Meanings of calumnious in English

Now they fabricated and circulated all manner of slanderous reports respecting me.

Insolent, scurrilous, or slanderous language, when it precedes an assault, aggravates it.

But it would be money well spent; it would silence the slanderous tongue.

Nevertheless, slanderous campaigns continued to be mounted by factions determined to unseat him.

The slanderous letter had not shaken her faith in him, yet.

What were editors thinking in publishing material that was so obviously libellous?

We can bear this libellous gossip least patiently of all with birds.

In my opinion it's libellous to say that I'm protecting a deserter.

Therefore, the alleged libellous comments should be covered by parliamentary privilege.

He had written the following libellous couplet upon the fair sex:-

That's difficult to argue while simultaneously denigrating their ability to deliver services.

But denigrating them as mainly serving the military-industrial complex is quite something.

City dwellers and environmentalists should stop denigrating farmers, he told Europe 1 radio.

We should not insult their motivations by denigrating their voting choice, he said.

Dillon felt a stab of guilt for denigrating her job earlier.

Comments favorable and unfavorable, some of them libelous, appeared in print.

It isn't libelous if it's done as a joke without malice.

In other locales, perfectly accurate statements can be considered libelous.

Aside from the fact that it is intemperate and inaccurate, it is also libelous.

I wonder the curse of Gomorrah does not descend on this gossiping, libelous community.

No proposals were made to Cicero, the reasons usually assigned for which are of the most calumniatory kind.

Were they true or calumniatory?

He must divert their sympathy for Ray into distrust of him, and before he had fully considered his words they were spoken,-crafty ,insidious ,andcalumniatory.