What is "calumnies"

Usage examples of "calumnies".

A few staunch friends Richard had, who made it their business stoutly to contradict the calumnies which came within their hearing, Daniel Dabbs the first of them.

We have said enough about this matter against the calumnies of Faustus the Manichaean.

She felt that, hard as it was to live with that secret, to hear Mutimer repeat his calumnies would involve her in yet worse anguish, leading perhaps to terrible things.

Comrade Roodhouse was busy in the crowd, sowing calumnies and fermenting wrath.

Were I to undertake to answer the calumnies of the newspapers, it would be more than all my own time, & that of 20.

In confutation of these and all future calumnies, by way of anticipation, I shall make to you a profession of my political faith.

Amidst the direct falsehoods, the misrepresentations of truth, the calumnies and the insults resorted to by a faction to mislead the public mind, and to overwhelm those entrusted with its interests, our support is to be found in the approving voice of our conscience and country, in the testimony of our fellow citizens, that their confidence is not shaken by these artifices.

I have always believed that the thousand calumnies which the federalists, in bitterness of heart, and mortification at their ejection, daily invented against me, were carried to him by their busy intriguers, and made some impression.

And I wish could subjoin a translation of Gosindi's Syntagma of the doctrines of Epicurus, which, notwithstanding the calumnies of the Stoics and caricatures of Cicero, is the most rational system remaining of the philosophy of the ancients, as frugal of vicious indulgence, and fruitful of virtue as the hyperbolical extravagances of his rival sects.

Their great crime was in their calumnies of Epicurus and misrepresentations of his doctrines.

Even the cold of the climate, and the want of vines and fruit trees, as well as the barbarism of the inhabitants, are calumnies of the luxurious Italians.

His humanity was affected by the complaints, perhaps the calumnies, of an injured people: the impious Normans had interrupted the payment of tithes.

I had the honour of paying my court to her, and I heard from her own mouth that her royal cousin had had the weakness to let himself be imposed on by calumnies about me.

Schuyler ignored the calumnies and proceeded to act with a shrewdness and dispatch he had not been thought to possess.

In his calumnies, he seemed unable to curb his venom, and at length Colonel John Laurens, one of Washington’s aides, challenged him to a duel and shot him in the side.