This is to defend oneself calumniously, and is unlawful as stated above (A. 2).    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

So liable are the best and most innocent sort of men to be calumniously accused in this manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference

From them we stole refreshment, and did not find the waters mineral and astringent, as Mr. Turner, the first climber, calumniously asserts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862] Reference

The Whigs were calumniously suspected of having had some unfair share in the death of the Duke, -- an event which took place in the following manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference

Blacklaywood, the lady complains, has spoken calumniously of her to her lord, and she leaves him, saying farewell to her children, and taking her youngest son with her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series] Reference

Will not all who have sided against him in this most singular adventure, charge him with calumniously accusing his adversaries of a crime of which he is himself guilty?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

The persons who were most bitter against him even declared calumniously that he had made over a large amount of property to Dumay to save it from the just demands of his associates in China.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modeste Mignon] Reference

But bring any of these trespasses up as some of the threads running through the tapestry of our history and he who so utters them will be assailed as unpatriotic, un-American, traitorous, treasonous, and anything else that might paint that truth-teller calumniously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barack Obama's speech and context. It's ALL context.] Reference

For, when the readers and admirers of Plato dared calumniously to assert that our.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books] Reference

I deny that I ever made the "philosophical pretensions" which Dr. Royce calumniously imputes to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University Professor Royce's Libel] Reference

This fact is very much more comprehensible than the strange instincts we calumniously attribute to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spontaneous Activity in Education] Reference

If, on the contrary, as he calumniously contends, my gifts are of the wisdom of this world, let him shew that he is an adept in this world's wisdom, and I will submit myself to his verdict.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference

The Vatican described the reports as "false" and having "the intention of gratuitously and calumniously attributing to the editor of 'Osservatore Romano' an unmotivated, unreasonable and malicious action.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gates of Vienna] Reference

But a graver fault of these three and a half lines is that the amazement, the turning, the burning, and the banning, are all alike fictitious; and foul-fictitious, calumniously conceived no less than falsely.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference

For the dreaded alternative glared him in the face that, if he yielded, he must look like what he had been twenty times calumniously called; and he would die rather than yield, and swing his windmill till he dropped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference

"Atheists," he said calumniously, "do not love the country; they like the environs of Paris, where you have all the pleasures of the city, good cheer, books, pretty women; but if you take these things away, then they die of weariness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)] Reference

"It seems clear from the proliferation of the most incredible assertions and hypotheses ... that everything rests on unfounded convictions, with the intention of gratuitously and calumniously attributing to the editor of 'Osservatore Romano' an unmotivated, unreasonable and malicious action," he wrote.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shad Plank] Reference

"For behold! at two in the morning I discover the object of my adoration and the daughter of an estimable prelate, most calumniously clad and busily employed in rumpling my supply of cravats.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Certain Hour] Reference

(often calumniously, for tinkers have enemies as well as other people) of insidiously enlarging holes, making simple into compound fractures, and sometimes of planting two holes where they find one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg] Reference

He remarked: -- "It accuses the judges neither of ignorance nor corruption: whatever it says, it does not say it calumniously; that kind of language belongs to persons whose eloquence entitles them to a free use of epithets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

A rough and ready government calumniously blackened by unscrupulous enemies, criminal perhaps in its outbursts, but suited in its feasible aims to the peculiar needs of a peculiar people, and therefore as worthy of being recognized as any of the others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inside Story of the Peace Conference] Reference

This word was calumniously interpreted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men] Reference

Whatever it says it does not say calumniously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)] Reference

Boreas blowing calumniously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference

Northeaster blowing calumniously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knights] Reference