c 3 a 1 l 1 u 1 m 3 n 1 i 1 a 1 t 1 e 1
10 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
originFirst attested in 1554; borrowed from Latin calumniātus, perfect passive participle of calumnior (“to blame, cavil at; to accuse falsely”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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