SLANDER

aspersion, calumny, slander, defamation, denigration

(noun) an abusive attack on a person’s character or good name

slander

(noun) words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another

defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch

(verb) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

slander (countable and uncountable, plural slanders)

A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.

Synonyms

• See also slander

Antonyms

• glorification (falsely praising statement)

Verb

slander (third-person singular simple present slanders, present participle slandering, simple past and past participle slandered)

To utter a slanderous statement about; baselessly speak ill of.

Synonyms

• defame

• libel (always in writing)

• See also defame

Antonyms

• glorify (baselessly speak well of)

Anagrams

• Landers, Lenards, Nadlers, Randles, Sandler, darnels, enlards, landers, relands, slandre, snarled

Source: Wiktionary

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Slan"der, n. Etym: [OE. sclandere, OF. esclandre, esclandle, escandre, F. esclandre, fr. L. scandalum, Gr. skand to spring, leap. See Scan, and cf. Scandal.]

1. 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." Tillotson. [We] make the careful magistrate The mark of slander. B. Jonson.

2. Disgrace; reproach; dishonor; opprobrium. Thou slander of thy mother's heavy womb. Shak.

3. (Law)

Definition: 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. Burril.

Slan"der, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slandered; p. pr. & vb. n. Slandering.]

1. 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. Shak.

2. To bring discredit or shame upon by one's acts. Tax not so bad a voice To slander music any more than once. Shak.

Syn.

– To asperse; defame; calumniate; vilify; malign; belie; scandalize; reproach. See Asperse.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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