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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 calumniārī meaning "to accuse falsely, trick." It entered English in the mid-1500s.

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