calumniate

A gentleman will never calumniate or listen to calumny.

From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Is it necessary to hate those who disagree with you, and to calumniate those whose argument you cannot answer, in order to be spiritual?

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll

The enemies of the light shall not cease to calumniate and persecute you.

From John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves New German-Catholic Chruch by Anonymous

If there should be any cruel enough, ungenerous enough, or base enough," sobbed she, "to calumniate me, you will be my protector; and beneath your roof shall I find my refuge.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever

I do not calumniate her, when I say that she had no character, and the most limited ideas.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I’m putting this politely: They have been calumniated and abused for centuries.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2020

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 ● Nov. 1, 2014

The imperial pair saw a calumniated saint in Rasputin; the people, in the words of a monarchist member of the Duma, saw "the beastly, drunken unclean face of a bald satyr from Tobolsk."

From Time Magazine Archive

But I am not to suffer the law of the land to be calumniated by such a defence.

From The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell by Theophila Carlile Campbell

Herr Professor," cried Leuthold, "I can only suppose that some one has shamefully calumniated me to you.

From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern

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

Had his existence been real, or the invention been credited, Pope would not have persisted in calumniating the bookseller for want of a culprit upon whom to lay the offence.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Alexander Pope

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 F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar