calumniate

The Magian went to Cambyses to calumniate his brother, saying that his mind was set on evil.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker

The tattling world would instantly unite—or calumniate us.

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

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

To tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

The intriguers about the court, the malcontents in the country, eagerly seized on this circumstance to calumniate the Duke, and accused him of unworthy motives in the conduct of the war.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various

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

I think," said the Count, indignantly, "that the conspirators are calumniated.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various

Her honour always in danger of being assailed, her delicacy of being offended, her strength of being exhausted, and her virtue of being calumniated!

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

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

"He is the same Major Stapylton that a rascally press is now libelling and calumniating," said Barrington, hotly.

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever

Lord Byron answered, depreciating himself in a literary sense, and calumniating himself morally, by the assertion that he resembled Lord Lyttelton's son—a bad, though talented man—rather than the great author.

From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Sir Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry) Jerningham