(n.) False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Claims that boys were murdered by VIP sex ring are credible and true - police Read more “I denied all and each of the allegations in turn [to police] and in detail and categorised them as false and untrue and, in whole, a heinous calumny,” said Proctor’s statement.
(2) It’s the sickness of those who insatiably try to multiply their powers and to do so are capable of calumny, defamation and discrediting others, even in newspapers and magazines, naturally to show themselves as being more capable than others.
(3) Left-wing philosopher Bernard-Henry Lévy spoke of a noble man who had been the victim of a "spiral of horror and calumny".
(4) The combination of blinking and nodding when he says "rekindled freedom's flame" tempts us to truly un-Christian calumny.
(5) They must take their children away from school; they cannot pay their rent; they starve with their families; they are politically and socially defamed and calumniated.
(6) He told the BBC: "A dreadful slander is being perpetrated … If your father of beloved memory was treated like that you would do anything at all to rebuff and rebut and destroy these calumnies.
(7) Perhaps he would have been intrigued by the announcement of the latest hi-tech wheeze intended to counter the age-old problem of the rapid dissemination of falsehood, calumny and plausible gibberish: a social media lie detector .
(8) For the Sun, Juncker is "the most dangerous man in Europe", the son of a "Nazi" – an improbable calumny.
(9) Perhaps the greatest calumny committed against old people – and the one that most frightens the not-yet-old – is the belief that ageing causes us to leech vitality.
(10) Photograph: Ashmolean Museum Nor is this the only calumny Ruskin has suffered.
(11) The similarities in the suffering of these two children should remind us of the calumny and chaos that has defined the history of childhood adversity in Britain.
(12) Their masterly addition that Mitchell called them "plebs" too was the killer calumny.
(13) But many Jews do worry that his past instinct, when faced with potential allies whom he deemed sound on Palestine, was to overlook whatever nastiness they might have uttered about Jews, even when that extended to Holocaust denial or the blood libel – the medieval calumny that Jews baked bread using the blood of gentile children.
(14) Uribe has long denied any links to paramilitaries and on Wednesday accused Cepeda via Twitter of "desperately seeking more calumnies" against him.
(15) The calumny that they are simply repeating the ideas of the 1990s – or that they are Tories in disguise – is no more true for its steady repetition.
(16) Unable to shake off the calumny that they broke the world's banks, Labour must handcuff itself to credibility and responsibility.
Vilification
Definition:
(n.) The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its campaign of vilification and deliberate misrepresentation of benefit spending has been effective, blaming the poor, not pay structures.
(2) Casillas had been the victim of an orchestrated campaign of “vilification” in recent years which eventually prompted his decision to quit, they added.
(3) The UK has followed US trends over cannabis, heroin and psychedelics, and led the world in the vilification of MDMA (ecstasy).
(4) Both sections were introduced in response to three major independent inquiries, including the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, which found that racial hatred and vilification causes psychological harm to its targets, and reinforces and normalises more severe acts of discrimination, harassment, intimidation and violence.
(5) Jakarta's violent identity crisis: behind the vilification of Chinese-Indonesians Read more An edited version of that speech was later posted online with several words omitted, making it seem as though Ahok was suggesting the Qur’anic verse itself was misleading, not the Islamic leaders citing it.
(6) Jakarta's violent identity crisis: behind the vilification of Chinese-Indonesians Read more How did that start?
(7) Protection against racial vilification which upholds freedom of speech as well as freedom from racial vilification (much like the protection we already have, at time of print at least) is probably a good idea too.
(8) This review addresses the issues of dependence on an withdrawal from benzodiazepines and weighs up the evidence for their present vilification.
(9) Brandis said the overall changes would strengthen the act by including vilification as an offence.
(10) Representatives of Muslim and Arab organisations also reported that members of their communities experienced racial and religious vilification with regular frequency, not only in verbal form, but also through offensive letters and pamphlets,” the report said.
(11) In the days that followed, the pro-army media broadcast endless hours of patriotic messages and vilification of Morsi and the Brotherhood.
(12) Bahá'ís are denied jobs in the public sector; their businesses are closed and property appropriated; and the entire community is subjected to waves of defamation and vilification in the state media.
(13) As awareness increases it exposes some negative views, and there’s often a lashing out by some members of the community at trans people.” We were also seen as dangerous by our fellow gay people Mark Gillespie She cites vilification of the writer and soldier Cate McGregor by some commentators and bloggers.
(14) Ironically, in writing her book, Chua has done the most western thing imaginable: she has exposed herself, warts and all, at risk of misunderstanding and vilification.
(15) So why did Sir Andrew break away from this comfort zone and help found an organisation that was inevitably going to bring him publicity and vilification?
(16) This is in contrast to vilification and alienation which research suggests can catalyse re-offending.
(17) In the statement, he said: "The soil we till is highly controversial, and anyone who puts their head above the parapet has to be prepared to endure a degree of public vilification.
(18) But with an estimated one million US citizens living in Mexico – a large portion of whom are retirees – it is perhaps inevitable that some should support a candidate whose campaign has been built on the vilification of the country.
(19) Zimmerman argued while there should be laws to prevent racial vilification, people’s religious beliefs should be allowed to be criticised.
(20) MacFarlane, 39, did not comment on his vilification in the media for perceived sexism – not least on account of his opening number We Saw Your Boobs – other than to post a link to a Huffington Post blog on the proliferation of the "celebrity sideboob" in 2012.