calumny
谰言,谗言,诽谤,谰调
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plural cal·um·nies.
- : a false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something: The speech was considered a calumny of the administration.
- : the act of uttering calumnies; slander; defamation.
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Examples
He knows his hope for another presidential appointment could be hampered, because, as Choharis told the court, Jefferson “cannot escape the calumny” of false accusations.
One imagines that the latest pope, a Jesuit, is familiar with the centuries of calumny that have been heaped upon his forebears.
It has been said that the Duke betrayed the Bourbons and was privy to the Emperor's return, but this is a calumny.
Calumny, instead of gratitude, was unsparingly heaped upon herself and her husband.
The similitude is a calumny on the descendants of Ishmael; the fiercest Bedouin are refined and mild compared with the Apaches.
Neither envy nor calumny had the least influence over me, or I felt it only from persons who had not the power to injure me.
Then he flung his glove at the king's feet, saying: "Let him who believes that calumny come forward!"