calumniation
Example Sentences
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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 β Nov. 1, 2014
Bacon's is flypaper, and innumerable claims stick to it: over the past 40 years it has attracted extremes of praise and calumniation.
From Time Magazine Archive
William S. Verplanck Knoxville You have heaped upon Sharon, an illustrious field commander and visionary leader, scorn, calumniation and apparent libel.
From Time Magazine Archive
The libelled Mistress Margaret gave no further time for calumniation; slamming open the door, she came down upon us, gaunt, grim, and unescapable—“Ye menseless tawpies! ye bauld cutties! ye wanton limmers! ye—wha’s this?”
From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 by Herbert Willis
It was said that he was spoiled by Pitt, and was consumed by vanity, and was broken by Tory calumniation.
From Drake, Nelson and Napoleon by Walter Runciman
