calumniate
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What do we care that calumny crawls out of its hole, calumniates him a couple of times and then goes back?
From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson
Or did he give this poor woman any opportunity of obtaining justice against this Captain Gordon, who, after acknowledging that he owed his life to her favor, calumniates and traduces her to her utter destruction?
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
He is no friend to a house who calumniates the husband to the wife.
From Peg Woffington by Reade, Charles
It is a liberty by which the gentleman who calumniates it might and ought to have profited.
From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Ryerson, Egerton
He argued elaborately that superstition is worse than atheism, for it calumniates the character of the Deity, and its evils are not negative, but positive.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
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"The Wife of Bath's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer
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