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calumny Noun pl -nies a false or malicious statement; slander [Latin calumnia slander]
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The headstones were fallen and broken across; brambles overran the ground; the fence was mostly gone, and cows and pigs wandered there at will; the place was a dishonor to the living, a calumny on the dead, a blasphemy against God. This was no calumny, and yet I remember well, somewhere far back in the late seventies, that the crew of that ship were, if anything, rather proud of her evil fame, as if they had been an utterly corrupt lot of desperadoes glorying in their association with an atrocious creature. Supposing you are right in your indictment, how can you raise any question of calumny or gossip, in your case? |
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