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  • 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.
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. Bernard-Henri Lévy: Predrag Matvejevitch Must Not Go to Prison!
  • When the first mode is adopted, the person whose meaning is misrepresented, thinks that an opinion, not his own, has been calumniously attributed to him. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
  • This is to defend oneself calumniously, and is unlawful as stated above (A. 2). Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
  • This message is to update you all how I'm holding up under the scurrilous, calumnious and vilipending charges against me.
  • The lightest suspicion of what is known as clericalism, even when only a suspicion, based on anonymous and calumnious denunciation, is sufficient to condemn a functionary. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1
  • This stigma of disease has been placed upon him and repeatedly emphasized, but despite the fact that the effort has been made for years, by men learned in anthropology to find and prove the inherent inferiority of the Negro, based upon anatomical, physiological and biostatic peculiarity, to-day the bare statistical fact of his high mortality alone supports the calumnious fabrication. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro
  • But bring any of these trespasses up as some of the threads running through the tapestry of our history and he who so utters them will be assailed as unpatriotic, un-American, traitorous, treasonous, and anything else that might paint that truth-teller calumniously. Barack Obama's speech and context. It's ALL context.
  • The persons who were most bitter against him even declared calumniously that he had made over a large amount of property to Dumay to save it from the just demands of his associates in China. Modeste Mignon
  • The plaintiff's lawyers never had support for their calumnious accusations against the Holy See," he added. Vatican Releases Files in Bid to Rebut Claims of Coverup
  • And this group of heroes, according to Hitchens, was subjected to a "near-unbelievable deluge of abusive and calumnious dreck .... Christopher Hitchens' "Hitch 22": Left? Right? Center?
  • Even commendation itself is often used calumniously, with intent to breed dislike and ill-will towards a person commended in envious or jealous ears; or so as to give passage to dispraises, and render the accusations following more credible. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
  • Parson, laying his pipe on his hand, “fourteenthly, it is calumniously asserted by the opposers of divine truth that on this hypothesis God made men to damn them; but we say Margaret

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