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Definition

false accusation against a person

calumny = false accusations

calumny = false accusations

calumny = false accusations

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

calumny = false accusation

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

calumny = false accusation

calumny = a false accusation against a person

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

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