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
By grossly calumniating the school, he got his father to remove him, and announced, to every one’s great delight, that he was going in a fortnight.
From Eric, or Little by Little by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
As the sailor intimated, Jim, himself, was open to suspicion, and couldn't afford to be too zealous in calumniating others.
From The Stolen Singer by Bellinger, Martha Idell Fletcher
