calumniate

We shall be able to meet at a dance now and then, and swing merrily round while they sit by who calumniate us.

From Ovind A Story of Country Life in Norway by Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson

The tattling world would instantly unite—or calumniate us.

From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

Monsieur mon frère!" exclaimed the lady indignantly, "if you forget your own position and mine, I must beg you at least to remember the profession of the holy man whom you calumniate.

From A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards

According to these principles, our doctors in their quarrels, injure, defame, calumniate, and asperse, and when they have the power, persecute and exterminate each other.

From Critical Examination of the Life of St. Paul by Peter Annet

He speaks to calumniate thinkers, and to warn the faithful against the discoveries of science.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Is it not astonishing, after this, to find the Vaudois calumniated by Albert de Capitaxis, Rubis, &c. as the first Christians were by the Pagans?

From L'Histoire Des Vaudois From Authentic Details of the Valdenses by al.

When I remonstrated for more seamen, I was called an enemy to Government: now I am told that I want to strew the King's pillow with thorns: am traduced, aspersed, calumniated from morning to night.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery

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

I have heard of cases of unjust warfare but my informants were enemies of the parties against whom they complained and most probably were calumniating them.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by John M. Garvan

There had been much calumniating cackle in the little town; nay, more: cackle is of geese; there had been venom of the snakiest kind.

From The Rough Road by William John Locke