calumniation
- 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
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
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
It was done, so far as funeral honours can make amends for a life of cruelty and calumniation.
From The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others by Fullerton, Georgiana
Now for narration, resolution, calumniation, aggravation, and the whole artillery of tropes and figures, to defend the proceedings at Guild-hall.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir
