calumniate

But I never could have believed that it would lead him to do anything so vile as to calumniate me so cruelly.

From Froth by Armando Palacio Vald?s

I am well aware that it is a locality where he enjoys little popularity himself; but at least he need not calumniate its people.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever

"You are my father's friend, and you calumniate him!"

From Garrick's Pupil by Auguston Filon

A gentleman will never calumniate or listen to calumny.

From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

They know not what they do, nor what they say: in their ignorance they calumniate that which is best both in their life and in themselves.

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier

I’m putting this politely: They have been calumniated and abused for centuries.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2020

A good remedy against calumniation or slander: If you are calumniated or slandered to your very skin, to your very flesh, to your very bones, cast it back upon the false tongues.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 1, 2014

The imperial pair saw a calumniated saint in Rasputin; the people, in the words of a monarchist member of the Duma, saw "the beastly, drunken unclean face of a bald satyr from Tobolsk."

From Time Magazine Archive

It would have been a series of Lives of the Commonwealth’s Men; “our calumniated Republicans,” as Shelley calls them.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall

It is not surprising that she did not know what evil speaking was, for she was never known to say a word against any one, not even against those who calumniated her.

From The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. Walworth

He went out more like Nixon, his accomplishments tainted by allegations of criminality, his circle of trust constricted by banishments, betrayals and arrests until it included few besides his temperamental wife and calumniating eldest son.

From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2021

And after calumniating the greatest masterpieces, they dare couple their obscure names with those of our supreme masters .

From Time Magazine Archive

Adams read in the newspapers that Jefferson had compiled “a Magazine of slips of newspapers, and pamphlets, vilifying, calumniating and defaming you.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

In laying them before the English public, we disavow all idea of calumniating an entire class of Spanish society. 

From Roman Catholicism in Spain by Anonymous

Each nation had its separate interest, and they were not willing to lose any opportunity of calumniating their fellow-labourers.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Sir John Barrow