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Hot-blooded, he called his assailant "a veritable calumniator ... an infantile mind."

From Time Magazine Archive

He makes out Eusebius to have been simply an ambitious and cruel courtier; calls him a calumniator, a panegyrist rather than an historian, and accuses him of falsifying the edicts of Constantine.

From Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels by Wheeler, Joseph Mazzini

They will say that Mr. Jennings is a foul calumniator of woman as a sex—that he has charged the noble ladies of England with crime.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

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 Bradlaugh, Charles

"On my faith," replied the earl, "I would have given this right hand to have removed from the queen such an informer and calumniator."

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy