soft-buzzing slander

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Roget 934: damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer; and damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer; and without sneering, teach the rest to sneer" [Pope]; another lie nailed to the counter; cut men's throats with whisperings" [B. Jonson]; foul whisperings are abroad" [Macbeth]; soft-buzzing slander" [Thomson]; virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes" [Hamlet].

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