calumniate

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

Example: Balbus wishes to calumniate Caius, but is not able to do so himself.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan

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

"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

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

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

I am assured my maid has calumniated no one, least of all me; I am not afraid.’

From Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 by Leonora Christina Ulfeldt

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

I cannot understand," said the chronicler of an evening paper to a chronicler of a morning paper, "what can be the origin of our mania for calumniating humanity.

From A Mummer's Tale by Charles E. Roche