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
The devoted cardinal defied both the poniard and the tongue of the calumniator.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson
The word Devil is from the Greek for an accuser, or calumniator.
From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous
Hereafter you will stand in the pillory of history as a defamer—a calumniator of the dead.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll
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
