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  • Her wrinkles were like slander.†   (source)
  • That is a slanderous lie.†   (source)
  • Because telling lies about people is called slander.†   (source)
  • H mmm,' she said, frowning, 'I notice they don't mention the fact that it was them doing all the ridiculing and slandering in the Prophet...'†   (source)
  • My mother was so calm, so unrattled by either criticism or slander, that she was quite comfortable with her sister Martha's use of the word "fling"—in truth, I heard Mother use the word fondly.†   (source)
  • Have you ever heard of slander, Glick?†   (source)
  • The way he had rescued her from Ser Ilyn and the Hound, why, it was almost like the songs, like the time Serwyn of the Mirror Shield saved the Princess Daeryssa from the giants, or Prince Aemon the Dragonknight championing Queen Naerys's honor against evil Ser Morgil's slanders.†   (source)
  • The Criminal Element said that sometimes it was wise to put criminals on the defensive by making "slanderous or blatantly untrue comments.†   (source)
  • I too would have faced many of the same impossible choices: to slander a good teacher, or be labeled an enemy of the people?†   (source)
  • "She's spreading slander about you," he heard the policeman tell Capricorn, avoiding Elinor's eyes.†   (source)
  • The constable was not amused, and the gentleman was fined for slanderous action against a lady of the town.†   (source)
  • Was it slander?†   (source)
  • Although Chicago was rapidly achieving recognition as an industrial and mercantile dynamo, its leading men felt keenly the slander from New York that their city had few cultural assets.†   (source)
  • Man, you got to be careful when you go slandering one of us.†   (source)
  • If the fake had been revealed, he would have been able to claim that it was one of his enemies trying to slander him.†   (source)
  • Later, when Dr. Urbino confirmed the story after his interview with the Governor, she was convinced that her father had been the victim of slander.†   (source)
  • Convinced that no such videotape existed and that IBP had fabricated the entire story in order to deny him medical treatment, Kevin Wilson sued the company for slander.†   (source)
  • No, nothing but the Trial of the Long Knives can compensate me for the slander Nasuada has aimed at my people and me.†   (source)
  • All the slanders left Mukhtar deeply wounded.†   (source)
  • My slanderers pursue me all day long; many are attacking me in their pride.†   (source)
  • People slander their friends at the drop of a hat, but they were more shocked by the much-loved Prochazka than by the much-hated secret police.†   (source)
  • Farmer was said to have slandered the Haitian government.†   (source)
  • It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice.†   (source)
  • He didn't deserve to be slandered for that.†   (source)
  • I am fond of quiet, willing to do my duty, but [made] irritable by slander and apt to be forced by it to abandon my post.†   (source)
  • Say rather that the physician hastened your Edward's death with his leeches and purges, before you slander this good soul!†   (source)
  • "Done to death by slanderous tongue was the Hero that here lies," he murmured.†   (source)
  • "All right," I said, "expose me if you can, but stop the slander."†   (source)
  • He disagreed with Reb Saunders, yes, but he would countenance no slander against his name or his position.†   (source)
  • Such a precious, unspoiled bride, at this very moment resting in her bedroom while her own father slandered her.†   (source)
  • Now, on top of the shame, is disgust with himself for his slandering words.†   (source)
  • You have heard some malcontent perpetrating slander.... Have I not been—†   (source)
  • It is a slanderous, unfounded rumor that a Steel Unification Plan had been in the making and that it had been favored by Mr. Orren Boyle.†   (source)
  • And if I see my name in print, Mr. Bright, I will deny ever having spoken with you and pursue a suit of slander against you and your paper.†   (source)
  • According to linguist Geneva Smitherman of Michigan State University, bad-mouthing came from the West African language Mandingo: dajugu meant "slander, abuse," literally "bad mouth."†   (source)
  • "Cecily Temple, I shall not hear slander this evening," Felicity warns.†   (source)
  • To fault them for killing people is truly a slander.†   (source)
  • Though the inspector had no such convenient pulpit for reply, certain trenchant remarks of his on persecution, contempt of authority, bigotry, religious mania, the law of slander, and the probable effects of direct action in opposition to Government sanction achieved a wide circulation.†   (source)
  • They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boasOcl they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents, they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.†   (source)
  • You can't go around saying that, Lou, that's slander.†   (source)
  • Nor has the purity of our public councils, in this area, ever suffered from even the whispers of slander.†   (source)
  • This is slanderous.†   (source)
  • I write my own truth, in my own time, in my own way, and take full responsibility for its mistakes and slanders.†   (source)
  • In less violent form, in subtle digs and supercilious little drawing-room slanders, Southerners who had ventured north were to endure such exploitative assaults upon their indwelling guilt during an era of unalleviated discomfort which ended officially on a morning in August, 1963, when on North Water Street in Edgartown, Massachusetts, the youngish, straw-haired, dimple-kneed wife of the yacht-club commodore, a prominent Brahmin investment banker, was seen brandishing a copy of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time as she uttered to a friend, in tones of clamp-jawed desolation, these words: "My dear, it's going to happen to all of us!"†   (source)
  • I do not slander the enterprises of a benefactor and coconspirator.†   (source)
  • That's slander, Clumly.†   (source)
  • He's a slanderer, and he had no nose.†   (source)
  • Rod liked to sprawl on the ground with his ear near Jimmy Throxton and listen to Jimmy's slanderous asides about the intelligence, motives, and ancestry of each speaker.†   (source)
  • Profiles in Courage evvv", 47 I will only add, that, far from regretting any one of those acts for which I have suffered, I would do them over again, were they now to he done, at the hazard of ten times as much slander, unpopularity, and displacement.†   (source)
  • 'Catherine!' said Isabella, calling up her dignity, and disdaining to struggle from the tight grasp that held her, 'I'd thank you to adhere to the truth and not slander me, even in joke!'   (source)
    slander = tell lies to damage the reputation of
  • I didn't feel guilty about slandering her, as the poor creature was already well out of it.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile an "active counterrevolutionary" was convicted of slandering the Red Guards.†   (source)
  • Use the Lord's name in vain all you like," he laughed, "just don't slander any quarks or mesons."†   (source)
  • I knew you'd try to slander me when I dumped you.†   (source)
  • First, she's not his girlfriend, and second, I have better things to do than slander Mark Brittain.†   (source)
  • Mark tells me you've been slandering him to her.†   (source)
  • It is forbidden to defame or slander another person.†   (source)
  • If you are indeed a knight, ser, defend that slander with your body.†   (source)
  • I would like to know your honest views on that outrageous slander.†   (source)
  • I never wrote a line of slander against my bitterest enemy, nor encouraged it in any other.†   (source)
  • Bear in mind that you can be charged with slander for false statements that are made before a court.†   (source)
  • "Slander," said Boyle angrily, "plain, vicious slander.†   (source)
  • I'll have nothing to do with him until he withdraws his slander and apologizes.†   (source)
  • He has slandered her, to her face and behind her back.†   (source)
  • Who would believe you when you tried to slander the Institute?†   (source)
  • She had tried, she said, to believe him innocent of any part in Callender's slanderous attacks.†   (source)
  • Then you will not graduate and I will have to fight against your slander in other ways.†   (source)
  • But Owen Meany could not be persuaded to protect himself; he told Dan Needham that the nature of Mrs. Lish's incitement constituted "A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY"; not even to save himself from Randy White's wrath would Owen Meany repeat what a slanderous rumor he had heard.†   (source)
  • Jaime might have lost Riverrun, but it angered him to hear his brother slandered by the likes of Swyft, a shameless lickspittle whose greatest accomplishment was marrying his equally chinless daughter to Ser Kevan, and thereby attaching himself to the Lannisters.†   (source)
  • 'A lone voice of truth...perceived as unbalanced, yet never wavered in his story...forced to bear ridicule and slander...†   (source)
  • It was whispered about that all was not as it appeared: some even hinted that Father had set the fire himself, a slanderous allegation.†   (source)
  • It's slanderous.†   (source)
  • Ain't no slander.†   (source)
  • "So long as you remain unwed, you allow Stannis to spread his disgusting slander," Lord Tywin told his daughter.†   (source)
  • We insist that His High Holiness allow our own maesters to examine my good-daughter, to determine if there is any shred of truth to these slanders.†   (source)
  • They also listed all the signatories, accompanying each of their names with slanderous attacks that gave Tomas gooseflesh.†   (source)
  • They ought to be, but in order to be thorough, the clan chiefs will insist upon verifying their memories against yours, and if you refuse, Az Sweldn rak Anhuin will claim we are hiding something from the clanmeet and that our accusations are nothing more than slanderous fiction.†   (source)
  • With the long view and the short view and the overall view mastered, perhaps you won't slander the political consciousness of the people of Harlem.†   (source)
  • Mr. Holabird's statement is not only crass and derogatory, it is totally without merit and slanders my clients.†   (source)
  • They unskeptically accepted the slander that she was a money-hungry publicity hound, and they urged us to focus not on Mukhtar but on the work of doctors and lawyers in the cities.†   (source)
  • A virgin audience like Colonel Scheisskopf was grist for General Peckem's mill, a stimulating opportunity to throw open his whole dazzling erudite treasure house of puns, wisecracks, slanders, homilies, anecdotes, proverbs, epigrams, apophthegms, bon mots and other pungent sayings.†   (source)
  • That's why we're slandered and misunderstood by all the greedy profit-chasers who can't conceive of a spiritual motive or a moral ideal or ....We couldn't help it!" he cried suddenly, whirling to her.†   (source)
  • If a man takes a wife and, after lying with her, dislikes her and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, "I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity," then the girl's father and mother ...shall display the cloth [that the couple slept on] before the elders of the town....If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl's virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her father's house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death.—DEUTERONOMY 22:13-21†   (source)
  • But why slander me?†   (source)
  • I had rather you should be worthy makers of brooms and baskets than unworthy presidents of the United States procured by intrigue, factious slander and corruption.†   (source)
  • From Paris, where he was well supplied with London papers, Jefferson expressed astonishment at such slanders, as well as admiration for Adams's fortitude.†   (source)
  • But he was a good man, and this is no slander of him, but merely his own view.†   (source)
  • Go ye all from this chamber door, and make not such crying and such manner of slander as ye do.†   (source)
  • And to repeat slander to me, vicious stories that he had gotten from you!†   (source)
  • He said that Mr. Dalton's trying to slander the Communist Party by having him arrested.†   (source)
  • He spread slanders at so much a slander.†   (source)
  • Scotty: You ought to get their names and sue them for slander.†   (source)
  • He spread slanders at so much a slander.†   (source)
  • We decided that it did more harm than good because it just kept the Yankees stirred up and furnished more grist for the slander mill of his excellency, Governor Bullock.†   (source)
  • The foul breath of slander.†   (source)
  • There's no place like Henderson," said he, with complacent and annoying fidelity, referring to that haven of enervation, red clay, ignorance, slander, and superstition, in whose effluent rays he had been reared.†   (source)
  • But with the operation of what came to be known as the governor's "slander mill," the North saw only a rebellious state that needed a heavy hand, and a heavy hand was laid upon it.†   (source)
  • She had two children by him, both girls: she moved with wasted stealth around all the quiet slander of a South Carolina mill-town, committing adultery carefully with a mill owner, a banker, and a lumber man, walking circumspectly with her tender blonde smile by day past all the sly smiles of town and trade, knowing that the earth was mined below her feet, and that her name, with clerk and merchant, was a sign for secret laughter.†   (source)
  • "You hear how he slanders me, prince," said Lebedeff, almost beside himself with rage.†   (source)
  • But isn't it intolerable that a person whom we're told to imitate should go round spreading slander?†   (source)
  • "You are slandering them, Lebedeff," said he, smiling.†   (source)
  • How can they tell—how can they tell such lies as that to slander an honest man!†   (source)
  • He was only speaking from confused memory of old slanders.†   (source)
  • Yet, after all, are we not slandering an excellent and amiable man?†   (source)
  • but I'll set down no such slander against an orthodox divine.†   (source)
  • "Oh, you are slandering yourself," said Emma.†   (source)
  • I doubt not the hero is slandered by this report.†   (source)
  • And I am ashamed of you, sir,' said Mrs. Pegler, lastly, 'for your slanders and suspicions.†   (source)
  • Hate not those who reject you, who insult you, who abuse and slander you.†   (source)
  • Let us not slander our intelligence to that degree.†   (source)
  • That just shows the meanness of this slander.†   (source)
  • MARTHA
    Commend your soul to God for pardon,
    That you your heart with slander harden!†   (source)
  • Old man, your grey hairs should caution you against slander.†   (source)
  • Forgive me for my evil thoughts, and my slander.†   (source)
  • There is one expression in the letter, one slander about me, and rather a contemptible one.†   (source)
  • It's either an attempt to slander me, or the hallucination of a madman," Mitya still shouted.†   (source)
  • In all this I see a too hasty desire to slander me and to raise dissension between us.†   (source)
  • No one will know of it, it can give rise to no unjust slander.†   (source)
  • I mean that you...are a slanderer, that's what my words mean!†   (source)
  • True, but what if he slandered him unconsciously?†   (source)
  • "And Pyotr Petrovitch is a contemptible slanderer," Dounia snapped out, suddenly.†   (source)
  • The middle classes air their moral prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, and whisper about what they call the profligacies of their betters in order to try and pretend that they are in smart society, and on intimate terms with the people they slander.†   (source)
  • That if ever it is carried out, it will be in the face of every obstacle that wealth and mastership can oppose—in the face of ridicule and slander, of hatred and persecution, of the bludgeon and the jail?†   (source)
  • They intrigued and slandered and hated each other only on that account,—but as to effectually lifting a little finger—oh, no. By heavens!†   (source)
  • And so he continued, while good-natured Hans Castorp laughed heartily at this torrent of glib slander.†   (source)
  • He turned away and continued to address Rafi, who was terrified at the arrival of his Principal, remembered that he had tried to spread slander about him, and yearned to get away.†   (source)
  • In short, the way to avoid misunderstanding is for everybody to lie and slander and insinuate and pretend as hard as they can.†   (source)
  • He looked — and this is said in all contempt for the babbled slander of his garden — as if he had "killed a man."†   (source)
  • Yesterday, 27 March 19—, the insult and slander were confirmed orally by Herr Leo von Asarapetian, a direct witness to said conversation, during the course of which those insulting words and insinuations were uttered; thereupon Herr Stanislaw von Zutawski felt constrained to apply without delay to the undersigned and authorize them to begin proceedings as prescribed by the law of honor against Herr Kasimir Japoll.†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp read: "Affidavit, translated from the Polish original: On 27 March 19—, Herr Stanislaw von Zutawski approached Herr Dr. Anton Cieszynski and Herr Stefan von Rosinski with the request to call upon Herr Kasimir Japoll in his name and to demand satisfaction from same in the manner prescribed by the law of honor for 'gross insult and slander' inflicted by Herr Kasimir Japoll upon Herr von Zutawski's wife, Jadwiga von Zutawski, during a conversation with Herr Janusz Teofil Lenart and Herr Leo von Asarapetian.†   (source)
  • a slanderer!†   (source)
  • What hateful slander!†   (source)
  • Further, Hans Castorp read: "Affidavit "of witnesses concerning events transpiring between Herr Stanislaw von Zutawski and Herr Michael Lodygowski, parties of the first part, "and Herr Kasimir Japoll and Herr Janusz Teofil Lenart, parties of the second part, in the bar of the Kurhaus in Davos, on 2 April 19—, between 7:30 and 7:45 p.m. "Inasmuch as Herr Stanislaw von Zutawski, having received and duly dated 28 March 19— and signed by his representatives, Herr Dr. Anton Cieszynski and Stefan Rosinski, had come to the conclusion that the suggested pursuit of criminal prosecution of Herr Kasimir Japoll for 'gross insult and slander' of his wife, Jadwiga, would provide him no satisfaction, "1.†   (source)
  • At this, Anton Karlovitch Ferge flared up to defend his pleural shock against such sneers and slanders.†   (source)
  • His purposes, then, were purely emotional—or so said slanderous tongues, of which there is never a lack.†   (source)
  • which is so intimately bound up with freedom, and its martyrs—whom you claim have slandered the earth, but who are instead the planet's most beautiful and everlasting ornaments?†   (source)
  • Herr Michael Lodygowski then promptly slapped Herr Janusz Teofil Lenart for the objectionable injury he had done to Herr and Frau von Zutawski, whereupon, "without a moment lost, Herr Stanislaw von Zutawski repeatedly delivered a series of slaps to the face of Herr Janusz Teofil Lenart for the latter's slanderous defamation of both his wife, Jadwiga, and Fraulein Krylow.†   (source)
  • since no legal sentence imposed could compensate for the insult Herr Kasimir Japoll had slanderously brought upon the name and house of Herr Stanislaw von Zutawski and his wife, Jadwiga, "Herr Stanislaw von Zutawski chose the shortest, and in his considered opinion most thorough and, given the circumstances, most appropriate course of action, after having been indirectly informed that Herr Kasimir Japoll intended to leave the aforementioned tow†   (source)
  • I have a place to repair to, which will be a secure sanctuary from hateful reminiscences, from unwelcome intrusion — even from falsehood and slander.†   (source)
  • Elsewhere in this volume the slanderous aspersion has been disproved, that the vocation of whaling is throughout a slatternly, untidy business.†   (source)
  • All this was set going by Marfa Petrovna who managed to slander Dounia and throw dirt at her in every family.†   (source)
  • But do thou, brother, return to me as if it were to the house of thy father, and bring me word how it has sped with thee; and well do I hope thou wilt bring with thee Rebecca, even the scholar of the wise Miriam, whose cures the Gentiles slandered as if they had been wrought by necromancy.†   (source)
  • The idea that they are is due to our "realistic" journalists and critics of that day, always on the look out for Kostanzhoglos and Uncle Pyotr Ivanitchs and foolishly accepting them as our ideal; they have slandered our romantics, taking them for the same transcendental sort as in Germany or France.†   (source)
  • If any man had told me when I first went to John Jarndyce's house that he was anything but the disinterested friend he seemed—that he was what he has gradually turned out to be—I could have found no words strong enough to repel the slander; I could not have defended him too ardently.†   (source)
  • Look here, old trapper: few men love Ishmael Bush and his seven sledge-hammer sons less than one Paul Hover; but I scorn to slander even a Tennessee shotgun.†   (source)
  • Poor Hetty!" she continued, her voice sinking into low, husky tones, that seemed nearly to stifle her in the utterance; "she is beyond and above his slanderous malice!†   (source)
  • [56] The bird slanders in the elms, And pretends that yesterday, Atala Went off with a Russian, Where fair maids go†   (source)
  • Well, there's no preventing slanderers from having their fill at any time; but you need not be afraid.†   (source)
  • He himself wanted a daily governess for his younger children; and though he had hesitated in the first instance to offer this position to Maggie, the resolution to protest with the utmost force of his personal and priestly character against her being crushed and driven away by slander, was now decisive.†   (source)
  • On the brink of death he slandered?†   (source)
  • They slander him as a traitor, and the only result will be that afterwards, ashamed of their false accusations, they will make him out a hero or a genius instead of a traitor, and that will be still more unjust.†   (source)
  • And he related how a peasant had stolen some flour from the miller, and when the miller told him of it, had lodged a complaint for slander.†   (source)
  • You might as well slander Fred: it comes pretty near to it when you refuse to say you didn't set a slander going.†   (source)
  • How witty people used to be here who were morose when they got out of the door; and how courteous and friendly men who slandered and hated each other everywhere else!†   (source)
  • You see what an effect your heedless speech has had; you ought to have been more considerate than to blurt out such a cruel piece of slander as that.†   (source)
  • All d—d slander, girl; for all the essentials of Christianity the seaman beats the landsman hand-over-hand.†   (source)
  • Quarrels began to arise between us; and, propagated and exaggerated by the slanders of the relations of Madame Rigaud, to become notorious to the neighbours.†   (source)
  • Does any one dare to slander me?†   (source)
  • Slander those who tell it ye!†   (source)
  • I tell you plainly, gentlemen, that little as I care for the opinion of the world (as the slang goes), I don't choose to submit quietly to slander and malice.†   (source)
  • Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers, and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind, and with what sweetness of temper he can, and inquire how fast he can fix his sense of duty, braving such penalties, whenever it may please the next newspaper and a sufficient number of his neighbors to pronounce his opinions incendiary.†   (source)
  • Dr. Kenn, at first enlightened only by a few hints as to the new turn which gossip and slander had taken in relation to Maggie, had recently been made more fully aware of it by an earnest remonstrance from one of his male parishioners against the indiscretion of persisting in the attempt to overcome the prevalent feeling in the parish by a course of resistance.†   (source)
  • Assassination is even more of a crime here than elsewhere; we are under the eyes of the Revolution, we are the priests of the Republic, we are the victims of duty, and must not be possible to slander our combat.†   (source)
  • Nothing galls me more than the notion of turning round and running away before this slander, leaving it unchecked behind me.†   (source)
  • Such a mean mission as the domestic mission was the very last thing to be endured among them; indeed, Miss Wisk informed us, with great indignation, before we sat down to breakfast, that the idea of woman's mission lying chiefly in the narrow sphere of home was an outrageous slander on the part of her tyrant, man.†   (source)
  • The noblest instincts, the purest sympathies are persecuted, slandered; and if at length two poor souls do meet, all is so organised that they cannot blend together.†   (source)
  • Remember the prayer of our holy litany, where we implore the Divine Power—'that it may please thee to forgive our enemies, persecutors, and slanderers, and to turn their hearts.†   (source)
  • But drawing from his aged wisdom what they could understand, he told them of the golden bridge, and they laughed at and slandered him, flinging themselves on, rending and exulting over the dying beast.†   (source)
  • It was dark, and past supper-time, but the judge was not thinking of supper; he was eager to hear the slander refuted from headquarters, and as eager to have Howard hear it, too.†   (source)
  • Yesterday you were trembling for a health that is dear to you, to-day you fear for your own; to-morrow it will be anxiety about money, the day after to-morrow the diatribe of a slanderer, the day after that, the BOOK SEVENTH.†   (source)
  • She could not say, "How much is only slander and false suspicion?" and he did not say, "I am innocent."†   (source)
  • You would not wish to injure me by being too ready to believe a slander," said Bulstrode, casting about for pleas that might be adapted to his hearer's mind.†   (source)
  • I'm right down sorry I did it now, Mr. Howard, and I wouldn't have done it if I had thought; but it ain't slander; it's perfectly true, just as I told him.†   (source)
  • If he could bring her to feel with some solemnity that here was a slander which must be met and not run away from, and that the whole trouble had come out of his desperate want of money, it would be a moment for urging powerfully on her that they should be one in the resolve to do with as little money as possible, so that they might weather the bad time and keep themselves independent.†   (source)
  • You will say that was dishonorable: it's dishonorable to slander even the dead, and even to save a brother.†   (source)
  • "You have been led to this, I apprehend, by some slanders concerning me uttered by that unhappy creature," said Bulstrode, anxious now to know the utmost.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bulstrode felt a shuddering nausea, and did not speak, but was considering diligently whether he should not leave Raffles to do as he would, and simply defy him as a slanderer.†   (source)
  • Perhaps people will cry out against me that I am morbid, hysterical, that it is a monstrous slander, that I am exaggerating.†   (source)
  • "That's another slander," he yelled.†   (source)
  • But the spirit of folly, which had caught up Fyodor Pavlovitch, and was bearing him on the current of his own nerves into lower and lower depths of ignominy, prompted him with this old slander.†   (source)
  • "It's all slander and nonsense!" cried Lebeziatnikov, who was always afraid of allusions to the subject.†   (source)
  • All that is mean slander.†   (source)
  • He slandered him in society, injured him, calumniated him, bought up his unpaid debts to get him thrown into prison.†   (source)
  • 'Your excellency,' I said, 'protect the orphans, for you knew my late husband, Semyon Zaharovitch, and on the very day of his death the basest of scoundrels slandered his only daughter.'†   (source)
  • No, she had not intentionally slandered him when she cried that Mitya despised her for her bowing down to him!†   (source)
  • You are lying and slandering from some spite against me, simply from pique, because I did not agree with your free-thinking, godless, social propositions!†   (source)
  • He's slandering me from spite....He couldn't have seen it ...I didn't come from the door," gasped Mitya.†   (source)
  • I am a slandered man.†   (source)
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