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
In the presence of the assembled Lords, he, without actually referring to him by name, denounced the Duke of Clarence as a calumniator.
From The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick by Charles Bradlaugh
Yet he who falsely charges another with a crime is not a calumniator unless he gives utterance to false accusations out of malice.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
The fact is that the calumniator slanders because he thinks his abilities have not been properly recognized by the husband and he has been repulsed by the wife.
From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker
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
