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

From New York Times • May 24, 2023

When something like this opinion was slanderously attributed to Paul, observe the almost ostentatious practical contradiction of the calumny which was adopted by him at the request and by the advice of the other Apostles.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

Of course their absence was slanderously connected, but there was no known ground for it.

From The Life of the Fields by Jefferies, Richard

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

"And herein I apprehend myself now to suffer wrongfully, being slanderously reported, falsely accused, shamefully and despitefully used, and hated without a cause."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold