(noun) a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation / (noun) the act of uttering false charges or misrepresentations maliciously calculated to harm another's reputation
By presenting the intellectual with a more or less accurate image of the popular culture, advertising earns his enmity and calumny.
Quoting advertising scholar Martin Mayer
Soon after becoming Archbishop of Los Angeles, he parroted the calumnies against academic freedom at American Catholic universities being spread by Cardinal Ratzinger
people sought sophisticated explanations in terms of revolutionary psychology, by which the disgraced leaders, now with no hope, calumnied themselves solely to collaborate in the development of socialism
Slander had no effect on his name, calumny and insult heaped on him rebounded ineffectually and ended up bestowing on him a strange new aura.
on trotsky
the mischaracterizations of Marx’s ideas were quite fantastic (as were his calumnies against them)
Lázár once told me, half-jokingly, that there’s nothing as true as calumny.
It cheapens the whole . . . it’s a calumny, that’s what it is, on my work
the politics of the Communist Party, which consists of lying to its own troops, of calumniating