calumniating

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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

Voltaire charges Warburton with calumniating Cicero, by saying that Cicero said, “It is unworthy of the majesty of the empire to adore one only God.”

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 by Walker, Aaron

"He is the same Major Stapylton that a rascally press is now libelling and calumniating," said Barrington, hotly.

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James