calumniator

Example Sentences

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Hot-blooded, he called his assailant "a veritable calumniator ... an infantile mind."

From Time Magazine Archive

So Robespierre's voice and person may have been maligned, just as Aristophanes may have been a calumniator when he accused Cleon of having an intolerably loud voice and smelling of the tanyard.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre by Morley, John

It was said of a great calumniator, and a frequenter of other person's tables, that he never opened his mouth but at another man's expense.

From The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings by Lemon, Mark

I was a villain, a calumniator, a thief.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

And yet no one, however holy and devoted his life may be, is safe from the tongue of the calumniator.

From The Friars in the Philippines by Coleman, Ambrose