calumniate
Example Sentences
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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 Gozzi, Carlo
But I never could have believed that it would lead him to do anything so vile as to calumniate me so cruelly.
From Froth by Palacio Vald?s, Armando
"But you don't suppose I'm going to calumniate anybody, I hope!" said Roland, opening his eyes.
From Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time by Machar, Agnes Maule
We shall be able to meet at a dance now and then, and swing merrily round while they sit by who calumniate us.
From Ovind A Story of Country Life in Norway by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne
If there should be any cruel enough, ungenerous enough, or base enough," sobbed she, "to calumniate me, you will be my protector; and beneath your roof shall I find my refuge.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James
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"The Wife of Bath's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer
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