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Feb. 12, 2016
calumniate \kuh-LUHM-nee-eyt\ verb
1. to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
Quotes The "plaudits of the multitude" can not long be held by the
poet, and are not worth holding. The multitude knows nothing of poetry
and does not read it. The multitude will applaud you to-day, calumniate
you to-morrow and thwack you athwart the mazzard the day after.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "Edwin Markham's Poems," The Collected Works of
Ambrose Bierce: Volume X, 1911 Origin Calumniate finds its roots in the
Latin calumniÄrÄ« meaning "to accuse falsely, trick." It entered
English in the mid-1500s. More From Dictionary.com Submit a favorite
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