'calumnious' to-day must pass as veracious with triumph another day: gods and men have declared that Sansculottism cannot be. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Wilt thou ever be a foul-mouthed and calumnious knave?. From Wordnik.com. [All’s Well That Ends Well] Reference
We need not believe this perhaps calumnious little tale. From Wordnik.com. [Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment] Reference
McCain is ruining his legacy with this calumnious palaver. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Gets ‘Celebrity Treatment’ in New McCain Ad - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Newcome has uttered calumnious and insolent charges against you. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
I could persuade her to retract her calumnious statement about the poker. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 9, 1891] Reference
Troubling because his pickings while insulting, also border on the calumnious. From Wordnik.com. [2009 March 02 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference
"To prove that the assertion is calumnious," replied he, "I have only to do this.". From Wordnik.com. [The New Pun Book] Reference
It was the work of twenty years 'sedulously applied deception and calumnious machinations. From Wordnik.com. [Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked] Reference
Ever run into a definition like this one for calumnious: "of, involving, or using calumny"?. From Wordnik.com. [Are Dictionaries Becoming Obsolete?] Reference
But this base attempt to injure Mr. Pickwick recoiled upon the head of its calumnious author. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference
Without doubt, calumnious sayings against the preceptor always consume the lives of those that utter them. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Neither is there any end of calumnious imputations on them by whom his work is avowed and his grace professed. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
(Jean-Jacques Rousseau) I guess Shakespeare was right when he said, "Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.". From Wordnik.com. [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference
St. Germains to his intention of dissipating the calumnious stories circulated against him by the Marquis of Athole. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
Even here she trenches too closely upon the truth to escape the calumnious supposition that she is writing of herself. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
Commenters have left all kinds of comments to posts that the authors of those posts find objectionable, even calumnious. From Wordnik.com. [Response to slanderers - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Englishmen as an emanation and a proof of the most grovelling malignity, not less despicably silly than shamelessly calumnious. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
He knew himself the mark of incessant and calumnious misrepresentation both at. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
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