slandered

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Deprived of a second term, he retreated to his Massachusetts farm, imagining himself a latter-day Cicero, who likewise ended up “watched, dreaded, envied, by all: no doubt Slandered by innumerable Emissaries, despized, insulted, belied.”

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2020

Slandered to death to serve a sordid end, She called you murderer and called me friend.

From Black Beetles in Amber by Bierce, Ambrose

Slandered by her enemies, she may have been resentful.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 08 Great Rulers by Lord, John

Too well-too well, I know, that I'm betrayed, Slandered on every hand—that at this court A hundred eyes are hired to watch my steps.

From Don Carlos by Schiller, Friedrich