Calumnious

'calumnious' to-day must pass as veracious with triumph another day: gods and men have declared that Sansculottism cannot be. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

Troubling because his pickings while insulting, also border on the calumnious. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"The plaintiff's lawyers never had support for their calumnious accusations against the Holy See," he added. ❋ Stacy Meichtry (2011)

In an article Saturday in L'Avvennire, the official newspaper of the Italian Bishops Conference, Msgr. Charles J. Scicluna said accusations that the pope had failed to respond quickly to sex-abuse allegations were "calumnious." ❋ David Crawford (2010)

And this group of heroes, according to Hitchens, was subjected to a "near-unbelievable deluge of abusive and calumnious dreck ...." ❋ Unknown (2010)

One of them, a poet by profession, considered the term "Christian talibans" (the title of the article as it appeared in Italy) calumnious and filed suit against the author before the municipal tribunal of Zagreb. ❋ Unknown (2010)

McCain is ruining his legacy with this calumnious palaver. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And this group of heroes, according to Hitchens, was subjected to a "near-unbelievable deluge of abusive and calumnious dreck...." ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

For such men have left no truth free from their calumnious attacks—not the being of God, not His knowledge, not His operations, not those books which follow by a regular and strict sequence from these, and delineate for us the doctrines of piety. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Compare [reports about] the sites in question with other websites, those that cultivate calumnious derogation of political figures, or that use tropes of sexual violence to the purpose of satire. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Cochrane writes, Most of the article is just a calumnious personal attack on an ever-growing enemies list, which now includes "new Keyenesians" such as Olivier Blanchard and Greg Mankiw. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ever run into a definition like this one for calumnious: "of, involving, or using calumny"? ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is calumnious to suggest that Isaiah Berlin, Raymond Aron, Merle Fainsod, Richard Lowenthal and the others would have become parties to a conference program intended to put over the kind of explicit assumption that Mr. Lichtheim thinks he is exposing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

By this time, I trust I have sufficiently explained myself to warrant you, as in duty bound, to contradict all calumnious reports against my moral character. ❋ Unknown (2007)