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backbiting
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English bakbitynge, bacbiting, bacbitung, equivalent to backbite +? -ing.
Noun
backbiting (countable and uncountable, plural backbitings)
- The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English bakbytynge, equivalent to backbite +? -ing.
Adjective
backbiting (comparative more backbiting, superlative most backbiting)
- Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person's knowledge.
Verb
backbiting
- present participle of backbite
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calumny
English
Etymology
From Late Middle English calumn?e (“false accusation, slander; (law) objection raised in bad faith”), borrowed from Old French calomnie (“slander, calumny”) (modern French calomnie), or directly from its etymon Latin calumnia (“false statement, misrepresentation; false accusation, malicious charge”), perhaps related to calvor (“to deceive”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?elh?- or *?h?l-. The English word is a doublet of challenge.
The verb is derived from French calomnier (“to slander”), from Late Latin calumni?re, from Latin calumpni?r?, calumni?r?, present active infinitive of calumnior (“to blame unjustly, misrepresent, calumniate; (law) to accuse falsely, bring false information against”), from calumnia (see above) + -or.
Pronunciation
- Noun:
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?kæl?mni/
- Verb:
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /k??l?mni/
- Hyphenation: ca?lum?ny
Noun
calumny (countable and uncountable, plural calumnies)
- (countable) A false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing.
- (uncountable) Falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another.
- Synonyms: calumniousness, defamation, obloquy, traducement, vilification; see also Thesaurus:slander
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
calumny (third-person singular simple present calumnies, present participle calumnying, simple past and past participle calumnied)
- (transitive, formal) To make false accusations or levy false charges against a person with the intent to tarnish that person's reputation or standing; to calumniate.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:defame
Translations
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