Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a calumnious manner; slanderously.
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- adverb In the manner of a
falsification intended todiscredit another.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a false and slanderous and defamatory manner; with slander or calumny
Etymologies
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Examples
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But bring any of these trespasses up as some of the threads running through the tapestry of our history and he who so utters them will be assailed as unpatriotic, un-American, traitorous, treasonous, and anything else that might paint that truth-teller calumniously.
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The persons who were most bitter against him even declared calumniously that he had made over a large amount of property to Dumay to save it from the just demands of his associates in China.
Modeste Mignon 2007
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Will not all who have sided against him in this most singular adventure, charge him with calumniously accusing his adversaries of a crime of which he is himself guilty?
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When the first mode is adopted, the person whose meaning is misrepresented, thinks that an opinion, not his own, has been calumniously attributed to him.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1 1560-1609 1956
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Reply Obj. 3: The accuser deserves the punishment of retaliation in compensation for the harm he attempts to inflict on his neighbor: but the punishment of disgrace is due to him for his wickedness in accusing another man calumniously.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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From them we stole refreshment, and did not find the waters mineral and astringent, as Mr. Turner, the first climber, calumniously asserts.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various
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The Whigs were calumniously suspected of having had some unfair share in the death of the Duke, -- an event which took place in the following manner.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson
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Even commendation itself is often used calumniously, with intent to breed dislike and ill-will towards a person commended in envious or jealous ears; or so as to give passage to dispraises, and render the accusations following more credible.
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Wherefore the accused, if innocent, may condone the injury done to himself, particularly if the accusation were made not calumniously but out of levity of mind.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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This is to defend oneself calumniously, and is unlawful as stated above (A. 2).
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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