All 4 Uses of
calumny
in
John Adams, by McCullough
- The malig-nant air of calumny has taken possession of almost all ranks and societies of people in this place," wrote Christopher Marshall, an apothecary and committed patriot (though a Quaker) who had become one of Adams's circle of Philadelphia friends.†
Subsection 1.2.2
- "Bearing neither malice or ill will towards anyone, not even the most deluded ....I wish the laws of our country were competent to punish the stirrer up of sedition, the writer and printer of base and unfounded calumny," she wrote, and the key word to her was "unfounded."†
Subsection 3.9.3
- Envy nips not their buds, calumny destroys not their fruits, nor does ingratitude tarnish their colors.†
Subsection 3.11.1
- Nor did he feel obliged "to suffer my character to lie under infamous calumnies because the author of them with a pistol bullet in his spinal marrow, died a penitent."†
Subsection 3.11.3 *calumnies = false accusations against a person
Definition:
false accusation against a person