Sentence examples for calumniate from inspiring English sources

The Oxford English Dictionary finds it in Chaucer ("I me repente / If I mis spak"), but the hoary examples involve meanings that are either obsolete (to calumniate) or irrelevant to the present case (to mispronounce or speak incorrectly, a specialty of George W. "Misunderestimated" Bush).

Scheduled for release next year is the whimsical British import "Lucky Break, Peter Cattaneoo's follow-up to "The Full Monty," starring James Nesbitt -- who would be a natural to play Paul McCartney in a movie that set out to calumniate him -- as a cocky down-and-outer who lands in prison after a bungled bank job.

"The Exception" is excellent on so many things: the texture of office life, the appalling inconsistencies and lacunas in our perceptions of our own characters, the way intelligent people use the insights of psychology not to deepen their self-awareness but to calumniate one another with more sophisticated accusations.

The New Testament included texts that seemed to forbid Christians to use force: "But I say to you not to resist evil: but if one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other…Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you" (Matthew 5 39 44).

"Can any attentive reader of that Gazette," Hamilton wrote, "doubt for a moment that it has been systematically devoted to the calumniating and blackening of public characters?" For his part, Hamilton secured loans and printing contracts for The Gazette of the United States, where he published his own scathing rebuttals under the pen name Catullus.