calumniator

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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

Do not listen, ladies, to this vile calumniator.

From The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) by Moodie, Susanna

He makes out Eusebius to have been simply an ambitious and cruel courtier; calls him a calumniator, a panegyrist rather than an historian, and accuses him of falsifying the edicts of Constantine.

From Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels by Wheeler, Joseph Mazzini

The devoted cardinal defied both the poniard and the tongue of the calumniator.

From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell