calumny

in a sentence

In Proctor's presence a fool felt his foolishness instantly-and a Proctor is always marked for calumny therefore.  (source) Arthur Miller, The Crucible, 1953

Of such insolences and attempted slights he, of course, took no notice, and in the opinion of most people his frank debonair manner, his charming boyish smile, and the infinite grace of that wonderful youth that seemed never to leave him, were in themselves a sufficient answer to the calumnies (for so they called them) that were circulated about him.  (source) Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Vile calumny.†  (source) George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, 2000

Given the calumny New York previously had shoveled on Chicago, the postponement was an act of surprising grace.†  (source) Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City, 2003

He looked about imploringly for help in defending his country's future against the obnoxious calumnies of this sly and sinful assailant.†  (source) Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

He too loved Aziz, and knew he was calumniated; but faith did not rule his heart, and he prated of "policy" and "evidence" in a way that saddened the Englishman.†  (source) E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924

From the evil seed of lust all other deadly sins had sprung forth: pride in himself and contempt of others, covetousness in using money for the purchase of unlawful pleasures, envy of those whose vices he could not reach to and calumnious murmuring against the pious, gluttonous enjoyment of food, the dull glowering anger amid which he brooded upon his longing, the swamp of spiritual and bodily sloth in which his whole being had sunk.†  (source) James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1917

Strangely, however, he did not bow to them, as had been his humble act in the past, when his calumniators had arraigned and flayed him.†  (source) Zane Grey, The Rainbow Trail, 1915

Hush, March; do not calumniate a daughter over her mother's grave!†  (source) James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer, 1841

you are a liar, a calumniator, a villain.†  (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

Max's eyes settled on one thick tome written by an imp named Calumny.†  (source) Henry H. Neff, The Fiend And The Forge, 2010

They go the length of declaring that this honest creature would do anything for money, that the HISPANIOLA belonged to him, and that he sold it me absurdly high—the most transparent calumnies.†  (source) Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, 1883

One who had reproached him for deserting her when calumniated, who had urged claims upon his consideration on that account, who had lived waiting for him, who at the first decent opportunity had come to ask him to rectify, by making her his, the false position into which she had placed herself for his sake; such she had been.†  (source) Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, 1886