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Word of the Day: calumny
This word has appeared in eight articles on NYTimes.com in the past two years. Can you use it in a sentence?
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calumny \ ˈkæləmni \ noun
1.
a false accusation of an offense
2.
an abusive attack on a person’s character or good name
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The word
calumny
has appeared in eight articles on NYTimes.com in the past two years, including on Aug. 26, 2024, in the guest essay “
Gossiping Is Fun. It’s Natural. And These People Won’t Do It
,” by Michal Leibowitz. Gossip is described as “informal talk about people who are not present”:
In some ways, Jackie Pallas is exactly who you’d expect to swear off gossip. A dietitian living in San Francisco, Ms. Pallas is a practicing Catholic who describes herself as “kind of a goody-two-shoes.” She started thinking about gossip in her early 20s, mostly in the context of Catholic teachings about
calumny
and detraction —
calumny
referring to slander, detraction to the spreading of true, negative rumors.
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calumny
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