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• n  a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions

• Bacon's is flypaper, and innumerable claims stick to it: over the past 40 years it has attracted extremes of praise and calumniation.
• Southern cookery has inspired more versification, disputation and calumniation than gin, politics or pulchritude.
• You have heaped upon Sharon, an illustrious field commander and visionary leader, scorn, calumniation and apparent libel.

• defamation
• calumny
• obloquy
• traducement
• hatchet job