calumnious

• She totally shut their calumnious, hate-filled mouths last night, with her historic and amazing speech. —  Latest Articles
• One sentence which asserted that Lowe had dwelt upon the "benefit which would result to Europe from the death of Napoleon," was seized upon by Croker as calumnious, and in answer to his remonstrance, O'Meara's name was struck off the list of naval surgeons. —  The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
• On the following evening Lord Durham, son-in-law of the premier, assuming that he was the party pointed at, attacked what he called "the bishop's gross and virulent invective--his malignant, calumnious, and false insinuations--his well-known powers of pamphleteering slang." —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
• False and calumnious, indeed, would the charge be, if it were directed against each individual among the Revolutionists, or if from its universality exceptions were not made for many, who, not having as yet accepted the full consequences of International Socialism, go no further than to cast their votes for the party candidates. —  The Red Conspiracy
• The dissolution, we are told, was a predetermined act of violence and rapacity; and when the reports and the letters of the visitors are quoted in justification of the Government, the discussion is closed with the dismissal of every unfavourable witness from the court, as venal, corrupt, calumnious-- in fact, as a suborned liar. —  Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc

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