Ca‐lum″ni‐ous (?), a. [L. calumniosus.] Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports.
Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.
Shak.
. Slanderous; defamatory; scurrilous; opprobrious; derogatory; libelous; abusive.
— Ca‐lum″ni‐ous‐ly, adv. — Ca‐lum″ni‐ous‐ness, n.