calumniate
verb (used with object)
to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
calumniation
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a word derived from
calumniate.
Example Sentences
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A good remedy against calumniation or slander: If you are calumniated or slandered to your very skin, to your very flesh, to your very bones, cast it back upon the false tongues.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 1, 2014
Bacon's is flypaper, and innumerable claims stick to it: over the past 40 years it has attracted extremes of praise and calumniation.
From Time Magazine Archive
William S. Verplanck Knoxville You have heaped upon Sharon, an illustrious field commander and visionary leader, scorn, calumniation and apparent libel.
From Time Magazine Archive
The public officials of this favored country, Heaven be thanked, are infrequently slandered: they are, as a rule, so bad that calumniation is a compliment.
From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by S. O. (Silas Orrin) Howes
Having missed the eminence that would have given him calumniation, he is also denied the obscurity that would bring misconstruction.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 by Ambrose Bierce
