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- verb Present participle of
calumniate .
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Examples
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I pity the man, and believe he has no malice against Paul, nor does he think as he speaks in calumniating him, any more than he did in courting Felix; but, a I cannot but be sorry that a man of wit and sense should have such a saleable tongue (as one calls it), so I cannot but be angry at those dignified men that had such malicious hearts as to put such words into his mouth.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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Polk replied “in a stern manner” that Buchanan would have to judge his own behavior but “it presented a very singular appearance that a member of my Cabinet should be holding familiar intercourse with an unprincipled newspaper letter-writer who was in the daily habit of calumniating and abusing me.”
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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Polk replied “in a stern manner” that Buchanan would have to judge his own behavior but “it presented a very singular appearance that a member of my Cabinet should be holding familiar intercourse with an unprincipled newspaper letter-writer who was in the daily habit of calumniating and abusing me.”
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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For as little as fifty grand p.a. I will pen a vicious weekly column calumniating whomever and whatever I please for the hell of it.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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I am not slandering nor calumniating; I have not attacked anyone's character nor reputation.
The Society of Scholastics -- online courses about to start 2009
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Did they know that while he was calumniating against Jewish youth, he was encouraging neo-Nazis to get organized, and to become dangerous?
CHRC Bigoted Comment of the Day: Jewish youth group Hillel tears people down - Ezra Levant 2008
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Still, I suppose those who aren't bothered about calumniating others, grave occasions of sin etc.etc. won't be too bothered.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Did they know that while he was calumniating against Jewish youth, he was encouraging neo-Nazis to get organized, and to become dangerous?
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Epistles of this apostle, than to weaken our piety by calumniating the times and persons for which they were written.
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Some time afterwards the palace of Galerius was burned down; he accused the Christians, and they accused Galerius of having himself set fire to it, in order to get a pretext for calumniating them.
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