calumniate

It is dishonourable,--understand me, Herr von Heydeck,--I repeat, grossly dishonourable to calumniate thus publicly a young lady who cannot defend herself!

From Too Rich A Romance by Adolph Streckfuss

"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

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

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

To tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander.

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

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 hear those whose high vocation was once deemed a sure guarantee for their purity, either basely calumniated, or terribly condemned.

From Mind Amongst the Spindles by Various

I live in privacy with the great Director of the whole world; yet have the malicious city old wife gossips calumniated me.

From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt

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

There are many snares in such topics; not merely the danger of calumniating, but that of engendering a slippery conscience in matters of fact.

From The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

John P—— and others were indicted in 1692 for slandering, calumniating, reproaching, and taking away the good name of John Adams, late bailie of Paisley, and others; and for drinking the devil's health.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James Grant