NOUN
- a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
How To Use calumniation In A Sentence
- Bronsart exquisitely accuses our opponents of ill-will, unfairness, and calumniation. Letters
- For that, the stock comparison would be to chipmunks, animated or natural, but that would be a calumniation of our chipmunk brethren.
- The reasons and personalities behind the calumniation of him as a coward for nearly four years would surely be newsworthy.
- If there are no originals, they will serve very well to commit the notary whose seal is on them, and yourself, upon a well-founded indictment for forgery, wilful calumniation, and a whole list of crimes sufficient to send you to the galleys for life. Saracinesca
- He refused, for example, to participate in the blanket calumniation of Loyalists, and of all things British.
- Only bad ends appear: the poisoning, the calumniation, the denial of life, the despising of the body, the degradation and self-contamination of man by the concept of sin -- therefore, its means are also bad. The Antichrist
- If we're going by just "overrated" not all the way to "terribly disappointing" I'd like to nominate Lolita, as, even though it's a calumniation of many Nabikov obsessions, it is certainly not his best. Overrated novels
- To see them filled with ink, if you are not cautious, enemies will succeed in calumniation. What's in a Dream: A Scientific and Practical Interpretation of Dreams
- His public calumniation of Adams seems the more insane considering his openly expressed opinion that, in the next election, to support Adams and Pinckney is the only thing that can possibly save us from the fangs of Jefferson.
- Thou hast grieved over my calumniation, and likewise hast lamented the damage to my good name. Consolation of Philosophy