calumniate
verb (used with object)
to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
calumniator
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a word derived from
calumniate.
Example Sentences
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Hot-blooded, he called his assailant "a veritable calumniator ... an infantile mind."
From Time Magazine Archive
First, we are not sure that the vices existed, and were not the impure inventions of a malignant calumniator.
From Gibbon by James Cotter Morison
Imagining that Menon was the unknown calumniator who prejudiced the satrap against him, he hoped to prevail on the satrap to disclose his name and dismiss him.
From The Two Great Retreats of History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery
The proud day that published me a calumniator of all that I was most pledged to defend,—the deliberate liar against the obligation of the holiest of all contracts!
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever
"My word, lass," replied Mrs. Anderson, bridling up, with flushed countenance, and head erect, to the calumniator, "but ye're no blate to ca' me thae names i' my ain house."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various
