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
To the calumniator I wish you to say the following: If you can praise your neighbours, my ears are open to receive your perfume.
From Fraternal Charity by Benôit Valuy
The calumniator of his race should be ostracised from decent society.'
From The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
This accusation was indignantly repelled, and a young doctor of the law, whom she consulted, advised her to raise an action against her calumniator.
From The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler by Sir David Brewster
It is painful to be at the mercy of a calumniator who does not launch against you a clumsy and incredible calumny, but one that has an element of probability in it, only fearfully distorted.
From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie
