calumniation

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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

Bacon's is flypaper, and innumerable claims stick to it: over the past 40 years it has attracted extremes of praise and calumniation.

From Time Magazine Archive

William S. Verplanck Knoxville You have heaped upon Sharon, an illustrious field commander and visionary leader, scorn, calumniation and apparent libel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now for narration, resolution, calumniation, aggravation, and the whole artillery of tropes and figures, to defend the proceedings at Guild-hall.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir

The libelled Mistress Margaret gave no further time for calumniation; slamming open the door, she came down upon us, gaunt, grim, and unescapable—“Ye menseless tawpies! ye bauld cutties! ye wanton limmers! ye—wha’s this?”

From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 by Willis, Herbert