calumniate

"Ah Comte de la Fere," said a calm voice, though hoarse with running, "is it your habit to calumniate the absent?"

This is not a Corsican arbor, but an English garden; badly kept, I own, but still you must not calumniate it for that."

Married--to the villain who had not hesitated to calumniate the woman whom he had ruined, and then to cast her helpless on the world.

"'Monseigneur calumniates him," said Gourville, laughing, "if he is come, it is not with a bad intention."

The truth is that unlike other Islamic denominations, the Shiites have no record of any act of willful violence against the nation nor can anyone tag them as terrorists, yet, they are an Islamic group some government officials love to hate, malign and calumniate.

"Her name was made part of the screen shot through Photo Shop and the entire episode had been contrived with malicious intent to calumniate her," the spokesperson added.

Rejecting the equivalence between satire and libel, The Craftsman insists that libel designs "to calumniate the Persons and misrepresent the Actions of Men, either in a publick or private Station, for vile, wicked and unjust Purposes." Therefore, whatever is written without any design to "calumniate" individual persons is "not a Libel." As D'Anvers points out, however, in the current political climate, men "whose Characters are open to Censure, call every thing, of a satirical Nature, a Libel" (no.

Writing about a quarter of a century earlier, William Cobbett rants against those who called English labourers 'peasants': 'the insolent vagabonds who live on their labour may call them ignorant; calumniate while they starve them; talk of their want of education.

HJP lists 'blacken, paint black' as the verb's first mean ing, and 'slander, calumniate; denigrate, asperse, vilify' as the second.