How To Use Calumny In A Sentence
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Some people will tell you that it rains in Wales most days but that's a vicious calumny.
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The business plan is to use all that calumny and controversy to make money off news-stand sales but it doesn't seem to be working and ad revenues are small.
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You're not owed anything but, at BEST, the neglect of a postliterate culture, and at worst the sort of calumny and brickbats otherwise reserved for child molestors and the people who hang their toilet paper in the incorrect underhand manner.
Nick Mamatas' Journal
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Some even viewed the charge of novelty as a calumny leveled at them by their contemporary enemies.
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As the first barrister briefed in that seminal case, it behoves me to respond to this ignorant calumny.
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It would be a calumny on the reputation of that great man to suggest it.
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Weapons or slander do not cut it; fire or false presentation does not burn it; water or calumny does not moisten it, and wind or rumour does not dry it.
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Upon publication, he sued the newspaper for calumny because he was financially secure and was not in the shop-sign business.
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She has exposed herself to calumny from nearly all sides and may have dealt her career a mortal blow.
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To close this discourse, I shall only from it obviate a putid calumny cast by the Papists, Quakers, and others of the same confederacy, against the grace of God, upon the doctrine of the free justification of a sinner, through the imputation of the righteousness of Christ: for with a shameless impudence they clamour on all by whom it is asserted, as those who maintain salvation to be attainable through a mere external imputation of righteousness; whilst those so saved are
Pneumatologia
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(Laugier, tom.ii. p. 119) accuse the emperor Manuel; but the calumny is refuted by Villehardouin and the older writers, who suppose that Dandolo lost his eyes by a wound, (No. 31, and
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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But I will put my trust in the American system, where fabrication and concoction may work for awhile, but sooner or later the calumny is exposed.
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Yet even calumny is sagacious enough to discover and to attack the most vulnerable part.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Yet, unmindful of the calumny and criticism heaped on her by an uncharitable press and a still more uncharitable society, MS bravely travelled that long and difficult road from Madurai to Rashtrapathi Bhavan.
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'I know no life that must be so delicious as that of a writer for newspapers, or a leading member of the opposition -- to thunder forth accusations against men in power; show up the worst side of every thing that is produced; to pick holes in every coat; to be indignant, sarcastic, jocose, moral, or supercilious; to damn with faint praise, or crush with open calumny!
Lance Mannion:
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This was calumny as they both knew that Dalziel's ability to trip lightly on the dance floor was indeed fantastic.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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I resent the calumny that they've heaped on him.
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Yesterday's term was calumny, which is defined as:
Define That Term #7
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The management of the countryside, in which we landowners and farmers take such pride and for which we so often receive so much calumny, is just doing the same things on a still larger scale.
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Calumny require no proof.
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While I agree with freedom of speech even for the speech I hate, the cure is as Jefferson suggested: To paste the fat a$$es of the abusers with scorn and calumny so that they will never be allowed to walk in polite (and sane) society again.
The Volokh Conspiracy » One Thing We Know About Elena Kagan’s Views on Particular Free Speech Cases
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Well, yes, you can request the candidate, to Write a short note on the word calumny above, or ask From what is it derived?
V. On Reading for Examinations
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Wicked doers and speakers alike delight in calumny.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Now, I am receiving for all this a guerdon of blame and calumny, which is cast upon me in order to cover up faults which have been committed by others in past days.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
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I'm sure both parts of this assertion are mere calumny.
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In a media world aswirl with public condemnation and calumny, a few journalists tried with difficulty to keep their heads.
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He was relaxed,(sentence dictionary) a contrast to the tension which had gripped him while he spoke of the MacQuillan calumny.
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We believe we must treat politicians and those who govern with disrespect, with abuse, with calumny and sometimes untruth.
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What I don't believe is that it is necessary to calumny it with things it does not teach or believe.
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That's her privilege, but I shan't forget the calumny in a hurry.
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It pains us to be a subject of real calumny, unjustifiably so.
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Calumny require no proof.
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The suggestion that the knights had previously had any communication with King Henry is a gross calumny.
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What ethical responsibility does a bulletin board system bear towards publishing this calumny?
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The girls were doubtless out for a good time but they were perfectly law - abiding women and the calumny has unfairly stuck.
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I find not myself concerned in his ensuing talk, but only in one reflection on the words of the Scripture, and the repetition of his old, putid, and shameless calumny, p. 108, until we come to p. 126, where he arraigns an occasional discourse of mine about the necessity of holiness and good works; wherein he hath only filched out of the whole what he thought he could wrest unto his end, and scoffingly descant upon.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
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He could brand this as a calumny.
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It is quite another thing-and well beyond the usual, de rigueur, but shameful cooperation with Arab -, Islamic -, and "nonaligned" - bloc calumny against Israel in the
David Horowitz Freedom Center
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It was the word calumny that offended him most, that, and the idea that he, the Marquis of Trowbridge, should be called upon to promise not to commit an offence!
The Vicar of Bullhampton
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Has it ever occurred to you that calumny is as grave a sin as witchcraft and that it would be advisable to at least know what you are talking about before you assassinate somebody's character?
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If you have exposed some crime that he really committed, your sin is called detraction; if you accuse him of one he did not commit, your sin is calumny; and if you maliciously circulate these reports to injure his character, your sin is slander.
Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine
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He was the victim of calumny.
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She is the victim of a terrible calumny for which cheats in her own profession must bear the blame.
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Whereupon they prayed that the Romans would have compassion upon the [poor] remains of Judea, and not expose what was left of them to such as barbarously tore them to pieces, and that they would join their country to Syria, and administer the government by their own commanders, whereby it would [soon] be demonstrated that those who are now under the calumny of seditious persons, and lovers of war, know how to bear governors that are set over them, if they be but tolerable ones.
The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem
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It creates a nexus of links that increase the chance that the calumny will come to the top of a google search.
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`Anyone, anyone, accused of calumny against the state is automatically sentenced to five years in jail.
BLACK EAGLES
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When I buy Frank magazine and pass it around, I am doing evil for I am sharing in the sin of detraction and calumny.
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Although it's likely that she will prevail in court, he has made an ugly situation even uglier by echoing a lot of calumny and spreading bald disinformation, thereby reaffirming public lies.
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Quimper-Corentin should carp, carp, carp; that the declaimer against philosophers should occasion his own crucifixion in St. Denis street; that a rascally recollet and the archdeacon of St. Malo should diffuse their gall and calumny through their Christian journals; that philosophy should be accused at the tribunal of
Candide
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It is symbolic of the way that this glamorous Italian has ridden out the storm of controversy, calumny and secrecy surrounding the building, designed by her late husband.
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When I buy Frank magazine and pass it around, I am doing evil for I am sharing in the sin of detraction and calumny.
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I can only get away with this calumny because of the shield of anonymity.
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This calumny would be delightedly used by Caesar's enemies throughout his life to imply his homosexuality.
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He defended his beliefs with vigour, but in the end was overwhelmed by the flood of insult and calumny to which he was subjected.
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I find myself the victim of a campaign of calumny and abuse.
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The notion that his allegations may be no more than calumny, or suspicion without substance doesn't seem to bother him.
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MAN is termed honourable; his character is exonerated from the stigma which calumny attached to it; and his courage rises in estimation, in proportion as it exemplifies his revenge.
Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination
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Old J.hn J. Calumny himself never coined a baser one.
Cobb's Bill-of-Fare
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As for my getting more and more curmudgeonly, that is an outright calumny).
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Yet, notwithstanding all these things, no one endeavoured to vindicate me from this calumny; while great exertion was employed to frame excuses for Trelcatius, by means of a qualified interpretation of his words, though it was utterly impossible to reconcile their palliative explanations with the plain signification of his unperverted expressions.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
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It is an old saying, [2161] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword: and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scurrilous and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-play or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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This is a well-worn calumny.
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Indeed, clubs play on that calumny to cover their tracks, ever ready with an insinuation or well-placed leak concerning the real reason behind a manager's departure.
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At all events, it does his fame no great harm, unlike another calumny, which, as it does not seem "illustrative" -- that is, not in keeping with his general character -- we are at liberty to reject.
Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
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But I hope that I may be allowed to point out a very grave misunderstanding and misattribution, and to protest the calumny with which the attack on me reaches its crescendo.
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When they place these phrases in opposition to each other, they do this, not from the meaning which I affix to them, but from their own; and, therefore, according to the signification which they give to them severally, they fabricate this calumny, which is an act of iniquity.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
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Objectively, a calumny is a mortal sin when it is calculated to do serious harm to the person so traduced.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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freedom from coarse unprincipled calumny
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Even then, they fled the party and subjected him to a vitriolic calumny unprecedented in more than 70 years, and he lost.
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Quimper-Corentin should carp, carp, carp; that the declaimer against philosophers should occasion his own crucifixion in St. Denis street; that a rascally recollet and the archdeacon of St. Malo should diffuse their gall and calumny through their Christian journals; that philosophy should be accused at the tribunal of
Candide
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Scandal, woe and calumny struck the otherwise genteel junior school carol concert last night.
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It might be supposed that a grocer was beyond the breath of calumny; but no — the neighbours stigmatised him as a chandler; and the poisonous voice of envy distinctly asserted that he dispensed tea and coffee by the quartern, retailed sugar by the ounce, cheese by the slice, tobacco by the screw, and butter by the pat.
Sketches by Boz
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I'd just like to say that, having recently returned from Tangiers, this is a complete calumny against a fine bunch of traders.
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You risk committing the sin of calumny.
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Incidentally, he takes her to task for disseminating such calumny.
