calumniate

What I am now writing may seem to have little to do with the narrative of my own life, and may look as though I wished to calumniate the natives of Dalmatia.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi

Fearing that Caius will escape his vengeance, he steals money and offers it to Sempronius as an inducement to calumniate Caius.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan

The intriguers about the court, the malcontents in the country, eagerly seized on this circumstance to calumniate the Duke, and accused him of unworthy motives in the conduct of the war.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various

I do not calumniate her, when I say that she had no character, and the most limited ideas.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And so he concluded, affirming that the whole course of proceedings in that matter had been mixed with such clemency, as he thought there was none so malicious that could calumniate.

From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by John Gerard

I’m putting this politely: They have been calumniated and abused for centuries.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2020

A good remedy against calumniation or slander: If you are calumniated or slandered to your very skin, to your very flesh, to your very bones, cast it back upon the false tongues.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 1, 2014

The imperial pair saw a calumniated saint in Rasputin; the people, in the words of a monarchist member of the Duma, saw "the beastly, drunken unclean face of a bald satyr from Tobolsk."

From Time Magazine Archive

For it is fit, I think, that the devil should be punished, and not that men should be threatened with punishment who are calumniated by him.

From Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix by Thomas Taylor

I hear those whose high vocation was once deemed a sure guarantee for their purity, either basely calumniated, or terribly condemned.

From Mind Amongst the Spindles by Various

He went out more like Nixon, his accomplishments tainted by allegations of criminality, his circle of trust constricted by banishments, betrayals and arrests until it included few besides his temperamental wife and calumniating eldest son.

From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2021

And after calumniating the greatest masterpieces, they dare couple their obscure names with those of our supreme masters .

From Time Magazine Archive

Adams read in the newspapers that Jefferson had compiled “a Magazine of slips of newspapers, and pamphlets, vilifying, calumniating and defaming you.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

John P—— and others were indicted in 1692 for slandering, calumniating, reproaching, and taking away the good name of John Adams, late bailie of Paisley, and others; and for drinking the devil's health.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James Grant

In reading that work, which the information charges me with calumniating, I can only express my own opinion, as a justification of what I have done.

From The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell by Theophila Carlile Campbell