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- noun Plural form of
calumniator .
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Examples
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Just the kind of people Alan Dershowitz loves - ignorant calumniators.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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All historians admit the same thing; why, therefore, after so many testimonies, allow an ignorant writer to speak like a dictator, and say, while uttering a thousand follies, that it is in defence of religion? as if our sacred and venerable religion had anything to do with an historical point, although made serviceable by miserable calumniators to their stupid impostures.
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This story is worthy of the calumniators who stated that Julian had sacrificed a woman to the moon, and that after his death a large chest was found among his movables filled with human heads.
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Cartouche — to public robbers, or public calumniators?
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Although I was by no means ignorant that new calumniators would not be wanting to censure my new introductions.
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Howard, was one of the greatest flatterers and calumniators that ever lived.
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An establisher of a Republic therefore ought so to organize it that it is possible to accuse every citizen without any fear and without any suspicion: and this being done, and well carried out, he should severely punish the calumniators, who cannot complain if they are punished, they having places open to them to hear the accusations of those who had caluminated them in private.
Discourses 2003
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The poetic view he takes of death, and the lofty scorn he displays towards his calumniators, are as a prophecy on his own destiny when received among immortal names, and the poisonous breath of critics has vanished into emptiness before the fame he inherits.
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Manlius Capitolinus was therefore a calumniator and not an accuser; and the Romans showed in this case in point how the calumniators ought to be punished.
Discourses 2003
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I hope . . . to answer my calumniators with new victories over our national enemies. . .
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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