calumny
C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General noun
A false statement made to damage someone's reputation.
He spent years fighting the calumny that he had betrayed his partners.
Law noun
The making of false and malicious statements intended to damage a person's reputation.
The politician denounced the leaflet as a calumny designed to destroy his standing before the election.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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