Calumniar in english
Slander
pronunciation: slændɜr part of speech: noun
pronunciation: slændɜr part of speech: noun
In gestures
calumniar = vilify ; slander ; smear ; malign ; revile ; defame ; bespatter.
Example: Robert Kent's sole agenda is to attack Cuba and vilify the Cuban library community while supporting the US government's interventionist destabilization policies.Example: Just because the facts don't support his views, he threatens, slanders, lies, obfuscates and charges 'lies, hypocrisy and cruelty'.Example: As a result of this policy hundreds of priests have been been suspended from ministry and have had their names publicly smeared without proof or even credible evidence.Example: To accomplish this higher purpose, Panizzi argued, required a deliberately designed 'system,' and his much maligned rules, whatever their individual merits or demerits, were intended to embody that system.Example: The pot calls the kettle black may be used when one scoundrel reviles another -- they are tarred with the same brush.Example: A former Thai magazine editor has been sentenced to 11 years in jail for defaming the country's king.Example: The newspapers, metropolitan and provincial, have bepraised or bespattered her; she has been deified in prose, and ridiculed in verse.