calumniator

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Hot-blooded, he called his assailant "a veritable calumniator ... an infantile mind."

From Time Magazine Archive

The devoted cardinal defied both the poniard and the tongue of the calumniator.

From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell

Yet he who falsely charges another with a crime is not a calumniator unless he gives utterance to false accusations out of malice.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

So Robespierre's voice and person may have been maligned, just as Aristophanes may have been a calumniator when he accused Cleon of having an intolerably loud voice and smelling of the tanyard.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre by Morley, John

Your sick madman is a calumniator, and so-- Well.

From The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts by Iffland, Augustus William