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calumnious

ADJECTIVE
  1. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign

How To Use calumnious In A Sentence

  • 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
  • Parson, laying his pipe on his hand, “fourteenthly, it is calumniously asserted by the opposers of divine truth that on this hypothesis God made men to damn them; but we say Margaret
  • 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. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
  • And this group of heroes, according to Hitchens, was subjected to a "near-unbelievable deluge of abusive and calumnious dreck .... Christopher Hitchens' "Hitch 22": Left? Right? Center?
  • The plaintiff's lawyers never had support for their calumnious accusations against the Holy See," he added. Vatican Releases Files in Bid to Rebut Claims of Coverup
  • 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
  • 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. Barack Obama's speech and context. It's ALL context.
  • This stigma of disease has been placed upon him and repeatedly emphasized, but despite the fact that the effort has been made for years, by men learned in anthropology to find and prove the inherent inferiority of the Negro, based upon anatomical, physiological and biostatic peculiarity, to-day the bare statistical fact of his high mortality alone supports the calumnious fabrication. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro
  • The lightest suspicion of what is known as clericalism, even when only a suspicion, based on anonymous and calumnious denunciation, is sufficient to condemn a functionary. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1
  • This message is to update you all how I'm holding up under the scurrilous, calumnious and vilipending charges against me.
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