To all those causes of calumniation, may be added the conduct of Darnley, unlearned, unmannered, untoward, as he was, that gave too much cause for censoriousness to represent, and scandal to propagate.
a false accusation, or a malicious statement, about someone
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a false accusation, or a ma·li·cious statement, a·bout some·one