calumnious
adjective
of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
calumniously
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a word derived from
calumnious.
Example Sentences
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I deny that I ever made the "philosophical pretensions" which Dr. Royce calumniously imputes to me.
From A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University Professor Royce's Libel by Francis Ellingwood Abbot
My dear Leighton,—The public voice respecting the lecture you are calumniously charged with, is as wise as usual.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington
But a graver fault of these three and a half lines is that the amazement, the turning, the burning, and the banning, are all alike fictitious; and foul-fictitious, calumniously conceived no less than falsely.
From On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by John Ruskin
"Too sumptuous in his dinners, too much wine withal!" hint some calumniously.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle
Wherefore the accused, if innocent, may condone the injury done to himself, particularly if the accusation were made not calumniously but out of levity of mind.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
