A false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions.
An abusive attack on a person's character or good name.
1 In Paris, the highest virtue is the object of the foulest calumny .
2 Who deals in calumny should be prepared for the wages of it.
3 It is bad enough, certainly; but I ascribe the report to calumny .
4 The calumny is nothing but an audacious attempt to reverse the rôles.
5 If the accusation prove a calumny , so much the better for you.
6 The actor's response to this misogynistic calumny was characteristically strong-minded and pragmatic.
7 Their failure is the best and most complete answer to this calumny .
8 But the use of character is to be a shield against calumny .
9 First,-Thenatural spirit of man, which rebels against wholesale vituperation and calumny .
10 This calumny you have it, at length, in your power to refute.
11 The learned biographer, notwithstanding his good will, has ill repelled the calumny .
12 But the zeal of the bishop's enemies did not end with calumny .
13 To say that would indeed be to speak calumny of your country.
14 Only those who occupy an enviable position can become objects of calumny .
15 He would not retreat before calumny , as if he submitted to it.
16 You have shown that you can bear down calumny , and resist temptation.
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