How To Use calumnious In A Sentence
- 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? A Philosophical Dictionary
- 'calumnious' to-day must pass as veracious with triumph another day: gods and men have declared that Sansculottism cannot be. The French Revolution
- Troubling because his pickings while insulting, also border on the calumnious. 2009 March 02 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
- Neither could we be justly blamed should we be more than ordinarily urgent herein, considering how prone the ears of men are to receive calumnious accusations concerning such as from whom they expect neither profit nor advantage, and how slow in giving admittance to an address of the most modest defensative. A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity
- 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. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
- 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. Catholic Officials Defend Benedict XVI
- Reply Obj. 3: The accuser deserves the punishment of retaliation in compensation for the harm he attempts to inflict on his neighbor: but the punishment of disgrace is due to him for his wickedness in accusing another man calumniously. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
- From them we stole refreshment, and did not find the waters mineral and astringent, as Mr. Turner, the first climber, calumniously asserts. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862
- For an adjective, calumnious has the usage edge over calumniatory; Shakespeare, in Hamlet, had Laertes observe, “Virtue itself ’scapes not calumnious strokes.” No Uncertain Terms
- Wherefore the accused, if innocent, may condone the injury done to himself, particularly if the accusation were made not calumniously but out of levity of mind. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
