calumniate
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Fearing that Caius will escape his vengeance, he steals money and offers it to Sempronius as an inducement to calumniate Caius.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan
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
"But you don't suppose I'm going to calumniate anybody, I hope!" said Roland, opening his eyes.
From Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time by Agnes Maule Machar
But I never could have believed that it would lead him to do anything so vile as to calumniate me so cruelly.
From Froth by Armando Palacio Vald?s
"I knew what I was saying when I spoke to him as I did, for a man who does not hesitate to calumniate an unprotected woman has no sense of honour!"
From Too Rich A Romance by Adolph Streckfuss
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
He complained to me that they were grievously calumniated by the zealots of other persuasions, and charged with abominable principles and practices to which they were utter strangers.
From Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) by Benjamin Franklin
His own vortices displayed the picturesque fancy of a Rosacrusian; and moreover, likewise, he was calumniated as an atheist.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
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
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
He then avoided me, joined in calumniating me, gradually fell away from grace, and died soon after.
From The Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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