calumny

Example Sentences

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Calumny, of course, takes advantage of the scope afforded it, and hints at undue influence.

From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)

Calumny, I am aware, miscolours my simplest actions.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

"Calumny seems a natural weapon of those who get their power by appealing to numbers."

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore

Evil tongues are ever talking; Calumny abroad is walking Know'st thou that a simple kiss Ample food for slander is?

From An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics by Various

Calumny, which does not always favour the Royal Blood here, could never shed its Venom upon this Princess, and the whole Court ever admir’d her for her Sobriety and Virtue.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von