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Use "calumnies" in a sentence
"He did it laughing, as if his calumnies were the stuff of high comedy rather than the lowest of insults."
"One was, that the baronet should deny that the calumnies were his; the other, that Sir Alexander should confess that the libel was but a poor joke, for which he was sorry."
""calumnies", or doing everything in semi-private unattributable ways through insinuation and rumour."