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When independent counsel Ken Starr went before the House Judiciary Committee, he complained that “a number of my prosecutors are being calumnied and criticized.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Although the verb form has a history in the language—in 1895, the Pall Mall Gazette wrote, “The President has not been in office 12 hours…and is already calumnied”—the preferred form is calumniate.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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When independent counsel Ken Starr went before the House Judiciary Committee, he complained that “a number of my prosecutors are being calumnied and criticized.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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When independent counsel Ken Starr went before the House Judiciary Committee, he complained that “a number of my prosecutors are being calumnied and criticized.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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When independent counsel Ken Starr went before the House Judiciary Committee, he complained that “a number of my prosecutors are being calumnied and criticized.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Although the verb form has a history in the language—in 1895, the Pall Mall Gazette wrote, “The President has not been in office 12 hours…and is already calumnied”—the preferred form is calumniate.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Although the verb form has a history in the language—in 1895, the Pall Mall Gazette wrote, “The President has not been in office 12 hours…and is already calumnied”—the preferred form is calumniate.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Although the verb form has a history in the language—in 1895, the Pall Mall Gazette wrote, “The President has not been in office 12 hours…and is already calumnied”—the preferred form is calumniate.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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In like fashion, during the middle ages, in the era of feudalism, new ideas were persecuted and their originators calumnied and treated in the worst manner.
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"I," exclaimed Alley, "am not to be insulted and calumnied, ay, an 'backbitten before my own face, Misther Doran, and take my word you'll hear of this to your cost -- I've a faction."
The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
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