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  • verb Present participle of beslaver.

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Examples

  • "Apes!" cried she, beslavering them with all manner of abuse,

    Martin Conisby's Vengeance Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • And I stood thereafter with head averted, dreading her sighs and tears; instead (and to my unutterable relief) she brake out into a storm of sea-oaths, beslavering me with vile abuse and bitter curses.

    Martin Conisby's Vengeance Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • The Mammon Hill _Patriot_, whose editor had been a leading spirit in the proceedings that resulted in Gilson's departure from New Jerusalem, published a most complimentary obituary notice of the deceased, and was good enough to call attention to the fact that his degraded contemporary, the Squaw Gulch _Clarion_, was bringing virtue into contempt by beslavering with flattery the memory of one who in life had spurned the vile sheet as a nuisance from his door.

    The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Ambrose Bierce 1878

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