Definition of "calumniating" []

• Present participle of calumniate. (verb)

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• "I pity the man, and believe he has no malice against Paul, nor does he think as he speaks in calumniating him, any more than he did in courting Felix; but, a I cannot but be sorry that a man of wit and sense should have such a saleable tongue (as one calls it), so I cannot but be angry at those dignified men that had such malicious hearts as to put such words into his mouth."
• "Polk replied “in a stern manner” that Buchanan would have to judge his own behavior but “it presented a very singular appearance that a member of my Cabinet should be holding familiar intercourse with an unprincipled newspaper letter-writer who was in the daily habit of calumniating and abusing me.”"
• "For as little as fifty grand p.a. I will pen a vicious weekly column calumniating whomever and whatever I please for the hell of it."