Calumniate vs Betell - What's the difference?
calumniate | betell |
To make hurtful untrue comments about.
* Strype
* 1905 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes ,
To levy a false charge against, especially of a vague offense, with the intent to damage someone's reputation or standing.
To speak or tell about; declare; narrate; describe.
*1938 , Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (U.S.), Locomotive engineers journal :
*2001 , Donna Morrissey, Kit's Law: A Novel :
*2009 , Dean R. Koontz, Odd Hours :
To speak for; answer for; justify.
To lay claim to; win; rescue.
(rare) To talk about negatively; slander; calumniate; deride; deceive.
In transitive terms the difference between calumniate and betell
is that calumniate is to levy a false charge against, especially of a vague offense, with the intent to damage someone's reputation or standing while betell is to lay claim to; win; rescue.calumniate
English
Verb
(calumniat)- Hatred unto the truth did always falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings.
- There are adherents of each of the four French parties—Legitimists, Orleanists, Imperialists, and Republicans—in this little mountain-town; and they all hate, loathe, decry, and calumniate each other.
Synonyms
* (to make hurtful untrue statements): slander * See alsobetell
English
Verb
- Occasionally we do see some short-line road whose track and equipment are kept in such good repair as to betell of exceptional prosperity; [...]
- Sid's face disappeared and one of his cursed Gods was glaring instead, through gouged-out sockets that betold of his having loved that which was denied him, a law that not even legends could do away with.
- The air pooled in stillness because the winds had died and would never breathe again, and the silence betold a world of solid stone, where the planetary core had gone cold, where no rivers ran and seas no longer stirred with tides, [...]