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

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

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

It was said that he was spoiled by Pitt, and was consumed by vanity, and was broken by Tory calumniation.

From Drake, Nelson and Napoleon by Runciman, Walter

The public officials of this favored country, Heaven be thanked, are infrequently slandered: they are, as a rule, so bad that calumniation is a compliment.

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by Howes, S. O. (Silas Orrin)