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verb

calumniate

to make false and defamatory statements about

In a sentence

Six example sentences with calumniate, each labelled with its topic.

  • The court found that the pamphlets did calumniate the retired judge, inventing bribes she had never taken or been offered.

    Law

  • Rivals tried to calumniate the explorer with invented tales of cowardice, though every man on the ship contradicted them.

    History

  • A competitor paid bloggers to calumniate the bakery, spreading untrue claims about its kitchen that inspectors later disproved entirely.

    Business

  • The campaign hired writers to calumniate the mayor with invented stories about contracts she had never signed.

    Politics

  • In the play the villain sets out to calumniate the general's wife, and the lie destroys three lives before it is exposed.

    Literature

  • Rivals tried to calumniate the chemist by claiming she had faked her results, until three labs reproduced them.

    Science

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