calumniator
- noun
- /kəˈlʌmniˌeɪtər/
- Formal
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calumniador
- Nobody believed the calumniator's accusations after they were proven to be false.
Examples
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Incontestable traitors, plotters against state security, torturers, calumniators responsible for the deaths of a number of good people, dishonored characters who have to disappear from public life if public life is to be possible on French soil... an enormous mass of Frenchmen.
Academic text (1991) -
The calumniator spread false rumors about her to ruin her career.
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Listen, you slimy little calumniator.
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Emphasizing that the United States was the only legitimate government because it alone relied on "the will and choice of the people," he warned that the republic could not survive if "forward and wicked" calumniators went unpunished.
Academic text (2016) -
As a calumniator, he often made up lies to damage the reputations of others.
Synonyms
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7.3
A person who says false things about someone to harm them
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8.5
A person who spreads nasty stories about others to harm them, often in politics
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8.8
A person who says false things to harm someone's reputation
A person who tells lies about someone to harm their good name
A person who writes false things about someone to harm their reputation
A person who writes or publishes false, harmful statements about someone
A person who says false things to damage someone's reputation
A person who says or writes false, hurtful things about someone
Antonyms
How Defamatory
Surface Forms
Morphology
calumniator = calumniate (semi-transparent) = calumni + ator
If a learner knows the verb 'calumniate', the noun means straightforwardly 'a person who calumniates'.
Etymology
Calumniator comes from the old Latin word calumnia, meaning 'false charge' or 'trick', and it is the source of the English word calumny, which means a damaging lie. So, a calumniator is someone who makes false, harmful statements about another person to hurt their reputation.