Example Sentences

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The user suggested that Mr. Li had slanderously compared soldiers to wild dogs.

From New York Times • May 24, 2023

Davies said, that he had dared to speak slanderously of the holy covenant.

From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by West, Jane

Celsus, unable to resist the miracles which Jesus is recorded to have performed, had on several occasions spoken of them slanderously as works of sorcery, to which Origen had severally replied.

From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)

P-80 flourished so flagrantly that even its most hardened users became nervous, and some slanderously speculated that "Scan Man" must have ties to corporate security, a charge he vigorously denied.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce

This, too, was slanderously repeated, after my open appeal to the Court against such malignity; and this the learned Attorney-General calls availing himself of his privilege of reply!

From The Trial of Henry Hetherington by Hetherington, Henry