Sentence examples for calumny that from inspiring English sources

The only positive that one can gather from the calumny that was The Office is that pretenders no longer join up.

Even more significant, effective dishonesty -- calumny that succeeds in its goals -- undermines cultural commitments to truth by encouraging cynicism.

No other community is so replete with a similar cast of leaders, so be prepared for the calumny that will pile upon your head from those who say you are taking an insufficiently tough stance against extremism.

That is the one central calumny that gives credence to the others and that, being true enough on the face of it, has been the hardest to counter.

It also feeds and reflects the calumny that Israel in particular is agitating for war.

Older listeners are continually saddled with the calumny that they are too dumb or scared to download music for free.

Shortly before the election, she wrote in the New York Times: "The left needs to acknowledge what the right has long known: that it's a fiction to think we can move on beyond the brawl of the 1990s without settling it," adding, "and settling it requires helping Mrs Clinton triumph once and for all against the calumnies that were created to define her" as the "feminine face of evil".

I do not wish upon Muslim Americans the sorts of calumnies that were endured by Italian Americans in connection with Sacco and Vanzetti and Jewish Americans in connection with communism.

There's a lot to unpack here, such as Peretz's studious avoidance of the sentence Kristof leads with, his whole "I wrote that, but do not believe it" construction -- but I'm most interested in this bit: "I do not wish upon Muslim Americans the sorts of calumnies that were endured by Italian Americans in connection with Sacco and Vanzetti and Jewish Americans in connection with communism.

While I agree with Maulfry Worthington (Letters, 19 June) that our schools should encourage more curiosity, it is unfortunate that she repeats the near-calumny that Einstein was a "patent clerk" who would "become" a great physicist.

The President also publicizes calumnies that vilify minorities.