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false accusation against a person- The committee is characterized by chaos and calumny.
calumny = false accusations
- We can expect calumny from our critics.
- He denied all such allegations as "lies, calumny, and manipulation."
- I had given him no ground for that particular calumny.Conrad, Joseph -- Chance
- Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.William Shakespeare
- be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- In Proctor's presence a fool felt his foolishness instantly-and a Proctor is always marked for calumny therefore.Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- back-wounding calumnyWilliam Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure
- Who has told such calumnies?William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
- Tell me who is spreading such calumnies about my good-daughter!George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
- I love men genuinely, I've been greatly calumniated!Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
- Max's eyes settled on one thick tome written by an imp named Calumny.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- "Hush, March; do not calumniate a daughter over her mother's grave!James Fenimore Cooper -- The Deerslayer
- I declare, it's positive calumny.'Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
- During this phase he was no longer obliged to arrange gentlemen's pleasures, nor to plant little harvests of calumny.Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- You would have had to put up with indiscreet questions, calumny, contempt, insult perhaps.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- He looked about imploringly for help in defending his country's future against the obnoxious calumnies of this sly and sinful assailant.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- Few or none of the famous men that have lived escaped being calumniated by malice.Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
- He must make himself proof against calumny.George Eliot -- Middlemarch
- Given the calumny New York previously had shoveled on Chicago, the postponement was an act of surprising grace.Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
calumny = false accusations
calumny = false accusation
calumny = false accusation
calumny = a false accusation against a person