calumniating

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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

As the sailor intimated, Jim, himself, was open to suspicion, and couldn't afford to be too zealous in calumniating others.

From The Stolen Singer by Bellinger, Martha Idell Fletcher

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 Garvan, John M.