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charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
The journalists have defamed me!
The article in the paper sullied my reputation
How To Use calumniate In A Sentence
- Delvile, by which her own goodness proved the source of her defamation: and though something still hung upon her mind that destroyed that firm confidence she had hitherto felt in the friendship of Mr Monckton, she held it utterly unjust to condemn him without proof, which she was not more unable to procure, than to satisfy herself with any reason why so perfidiously he should calumniate her. Cecilia
- Who shall praise or honour princes who insult and calumniate each other? The Talisman
- He complains of having been calumniated, and indicates as enemies of the people those who appear to be opposed to his plans. Moniteur/Morning Chronicle
- But he was unorthodox, and as soon as the grave closed over him, he was grossly calumniated.
- The Masonic religion should be, by all of its initiates of the higher degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine. if Lucifer were not God, would Adonay (the God of the Christians) whose deeds prove his cruelty perfidy, and hatred of man, Barbarism and repulsion for science, would Adonay and his priests calumniate him? La Satanism Exposed | Disinformation
- Note the underlying gender feminist assumptions: 1. women are victims where sex is concerned; men are never raped or taken advantage of sexually or in relationship, 2. all accusations are true; and if contested, you become calumniated as an accessory or a Neanderthal in need of re-education. Do you think "Consent is Sexy"?
- At first, I couldn't bring myself to believe the veracity of the news item until I concluded that the reporter could not have been so debased as to fabricate the news to calumniate college students for no apparent reason.
- I agree that he has been calumniated in some ways.
- Also the fsspx is being denied church access, persecuted and calumniated. “Jag skall träda fram till Guds altare”
- Before any of Mrs. Cryer's adherents is tempted to calumniate, I am not a hunting man although I am a countryman and do shoot clay pigeons.