calumniating

Example Sentences

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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

To these calumniating charges it was admitted on all sides that Smith, himself, was giving some color of truth.

From The Real Man by Lynde, Francis

Many men of genius have died without their fame, and for their fate we may surely mourn without calumniating our kind.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde