If we're going by just "overrated" not all the way to "terribly disappointing" I'd like to nominate Lolita, as, even though it's a calumniation of many Nabikov obsessions, it is certainly not his best. From Wordnik.com. [Overrated novels] Reference
Bronsart exquisitely accuses our opponents of ill-will, unfairness, and calumniation. From Wordnik.com. [Letters]
To see them filled with ink, if you are not cautious, enemies will succeed in calumniation. From Wordnik.com. [What's in a Dream: A Scientific and Practical Interpretation of Dreams] Reference
Thou hast grieved over my calumniation, and likewise hast lamented the damage to my good name. From Wordnik.com. [The Consolation of Philosophy] Reference
It was said that he was spoiled by Pitt, and was consumed by vanity, and was broken by Tory calumniation. From Wordnik.com. [Drake Nelson and Napoleon]
We are to avoid giving occasion for our enemies to open their mouths in calumniation of God's name and his Word. From Wordnik.com. [Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost] Reference
Having missed the eminence that would have given him calumniation, he is also denied the obscurity that would bring misconstruction. From Wordnik.com. [The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1] Reference
It is obvious reluctance of management in the Republic of Macedonia to work fast direct - ratyavane this case deep calumniation them. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
The public officials of this favored country, Heaven be thanked, are infrequently slandered: they are, as a rule, so bad that calumniation is a compliment. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909] Reference
And her abhorrence had not been less than was now Harald's anger at such a shameful calumniation, and at the person who had exhibited such an evidence of her own dark soul. From Wordnik.com. [Strife and Peace] Reference
EVEN LYING does not seem to be off limits if their trustworthiness is at stake, as Kruger and Voigt proved recently by first accusing Norman Paech of anti-Semitism and later denying the calumniation. From Wordnik.com. [JPost Headlines] Reference
If there are no originals, they will serve very well to commit the notary whose seal is on them, and yourself, upon a well-founded indictment for forgery, wilful calumniation, and a whole list of crimes sufficient to send you to the galleys for life. From Wordnik.com. [Saracinesca] Reference
I could not at the time conceive of anything meaner wearing the name of man, of a crime blacker than base ingratitude, of aught more damnable than calumniation of the honored dead; but Massachusetts will have to surrender the pennant of infamy to the South. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10] Reference
The king questioned Conde sharply; but the latter, 'who was endowed with great courage, and spoke as well as ever any prince or gentleman in the world, was not at all startled, and defended his cause with many good and strong reasons,' protesting his own innocence and accusing the Guises of calumniation. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4] Reference
She's a noble girl, and I cannot bear to be the cause of her calumniation. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range] Reference
L, 528 sqq.), protecting the memory of Augustine from calumniation and imposing silence on the innovators. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
One analyst, more aggressive than most, says this current crisis is but the calumniation of a series of debt crises which began in the Third World in the 1970’s. From Wordnik.com. [New Shoes on Old Debt-Current economic woes have 1980's roots] Reference
A frequent guest of Cointet, the minister; he went everywhere, and, at the mansion of Mademoiselle des Touches, heard Marsay give an account of some of his old love-affairs; witnessed, before Daniel d'Arthez, the calumniation of Diane de Cadignan by every one present in Madame d'Espard's parlor; guided Maxime de Trailles between the hands, or, rather, the clutches of Claparon-Cerizet; accepted the invitation of. From Wordnik.com. [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2] Reference
"The practice," they say, "of deceit, calumniation, oppression and immorality cannot have any sensible and lasting injurious effect, and it is most agreeable to the mind and heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1] Reference
He spared them no word of calumniation. From Wordnik.com. [Gänsemännchen. English] Reference
His calumniation of. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
Song in the Night, the darkness of desolation rifted only by the cry for deliverance, tragic human experience, exhausted human hope, and dying faith, -- he seemed to interpret the sounds as they swept from the organ-loft and wandered darkly down the nave among the great stone pillars, till they stood, a dismal congregation, at the low door of the vestry-room, pleading with him for her who sent them thither, and astounding him by the hot calumniation that preceded them. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference
"Let a man write never so well, there are now-a-days a sort of persons they call critics, that, egad, have no more wit in them than so many hobby-horses: but they'll laugh at you, Sir, and find fault, and censure things, that, egad, I'm sure they are not able to do themselves; a sort of envious persons, that emulate the glories of persons of parts, and think to build their fame by calumniation of persons that, egad, to my knowledge, of all persons in the world, are in nature the persons that do as much despise all that, as -- a-- In fine, I'll say no more of 'em!". From Wordnik.com. [Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies] Reference
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