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Meanings of calumnious in anglès

(Used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign.

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Usage of calumnious in anglès
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Even to look into her face did not silence the calumnious whispering.
Demos
2
The results of your denunciation will be stifled, because they are calumnious.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 07
3
Mr. George Frederick Augustus Howard blushed indignant refutation of the calumnious charge.
Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 07
4
These things gave the broadest refutation to such a calumnious charge.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
5
That Colonel Newcome has uttered calumnious and insolent charges against you.
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
6
Such thy black caprices, O thou, the ever-shifting and calumnious,-HumanJudgment!
Zanoni
7
Let us put aside all these calumnious imputations; we will return to them afterwards.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 05
8
But I am noticing the calumnious threat I allude to more than it deserves.
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — ...
9
Young women, in his opinion, could hardly be too careful, in a calumnious world.
The Testing of Diana Mallory
10
How dare you to make calumnious observations upon my opera?
Vittoria — Volume 1
11
Let us address three questions to those who carried on a calumnious campaign against Serbia:
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1
12
He knew himself the mark of incessant and calumnious misrepresentation both at Brussels and Madrid.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 11: 1566, part II
13
And without any colouring to so calumnious a suggestion!
A Strange Story — Volume 06
14
For the rest, I trust to myself to propitiate the kindly and to silence the calumnious.
The Parisians — Complete
15
Without doubt, calumnious sayings against the preceptor always consume the lives of those that utter them.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
16
Then, as now, men of rank and power were the victims of calumnious gossips and slanderous pamphleteers.
Horace
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