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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Blacklaywood, the lady complains, has spoken calumniously of her to her lord, and she leaves him, saying farewell to her children, and taking her youngest son with her.
From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Frank Sidgwick
Whatever it says it does not say calumniously.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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
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
This fact is very much more comprehensible than the strange instincts we calumniously attribute to him.
From Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori
