slander

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  • v slander charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
  • n slander an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
  • n slander words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another
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• • Slander A false tale or report maliciously uttered, tending to injure the reputation of another; the malicious utterance of defamatory reports; the dissemination of malicious tales or suggestions to the injury of another. "Whether we speak evil of a man to his face or behind his back; the former way, indeed, seems to be the most generous, but yet is a great fault, and that which we call “reviling;” the latter is more mean and base, and that which we properly call “ slander ”, or “Backbiting.”""We] make the careful magistrate
    The mark of slander ."
  • Slander Disgrace; reproach; dishonor; opprobrium. "Thou slander of thy mother's heavy womb."
  • Slander (Law) Formerly, defamation generally, whether oral or written; in modern usage, defamation by words spoken; utterance of false, malicious, and defamatory words, tending to the damage and derogation of another; calumny. See the Note under Defamation.
  • Slander To bring discredit or shame upon by one's acts. "Tax not so bad a voice
    To slander music any more than once."
  • Slander To defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false report; to tarnish or impair the reputation of by false tales maliciously told or propagated; to calumniate. "O, do not slander him, for he is kind."
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• • n slander A cause of stumbling or offense; a stumbling-block; offense.
  • n slander Reproach; disgrace; shame; scandal.
  • n slander Ill fame; bad name or repute.
  • n slander A false tale or report maliciously uttered, and intended or tending to injure the good name and reputation of another: as, a wicked and spiteful slander; specifically, in law, oral defamation published without legal excuse (Cooley). Defamation if not oral is termed libel. Aspersions spoken only to the subject of them are not in law deemed slander, because not injurious to reputation; but when spoken in the hearing of a third person they are deemed published. Slander is a tort only to be proceeded for in a civil action, while libel is also punishable criminally.
  • n slander The fabrication or uttering of such false reports; aspersion; defamation; detraction: as, to be given to slander.
  • slander To be a stumbling-block to; give offense to; offend.
  • slander To discredit; disgrace; dishonor.
  • slander To speak ill of; defame; calumniate; disparage.
  • slander Specifically In law, to utter false and injurious tales or reports regarding; injure or tarnish the good name and reputation of, by false tales maliciously told or propagated. See slander, n., 4, and compare libel.
  • slander To reproach; charge: with with.
  • slander Synonyms Defame, Calumniate, etc. See asperse.
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• • n Slander slan′dėr a false or malicious report: malicious defamation by words spoken: calumny
  • v.t Slander to defame: to calumniate
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• H. L. Mencken

  

  “The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.”
• Gustave Flaubert

  

  “Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
• George Bancroft

  

  “In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.”
• St. Bernard

  

  “Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.”
• Thomas Fuller

  

  “A generous confession disarms slander.”
• Titus Maccius Plautus

  

  “Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.”

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