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calumny
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synonyms: traducement ???
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Definition:a false, malicious statement intended to injure someone or something's reputation; slander; defamation
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An attempt at divorce could lead to nothing but a public scandal, which would be a perfect godsend to his enemies for calumny and attacks on his high position in society.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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"The world is cruel, Emma. Wherever we might have gone, it would have persecuted us. You would have had to put up with indiscreet questions, calumny, contempt, insult perhaps.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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Dr. Abelard Luis Cabral was arrested by the Secret Police. The charge? “Slander and gross calumny against the Person of the President.”
Junot Díaz. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)
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These views as usual, pleased some more, others less; some chid and calumniated me, and laid it to me as a crime that I had dared to depart from the precepts and opinions of all anatomists;
William Harvey. On The Motion of The Heart And Blood In Animals
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