Definition of slander

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Slander (n.) 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..

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Traducingly :: Traducingly (adv.) In a traducing manner; by traduction; slanderously.
Malign :: Malign (a.) To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.
Injury :: Injury (a.) Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character..
Slandered :: Slandered (imp. & p. p.) of Slande.
Insinuation :: Insinuation (n.) That which is insinuated; a hint; a suggestion or intimation by distant allusion; as, slander may be conveyed by insinuations..
Defamation :: Defamation (n.) Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion..
Foul-spoken :: Foul-spoken (a.) Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language..
Slanderous :: Slanderous (a.) Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander.
Slander :: Slander (n.) Disgrace; reproach; dishonor; opprobrium.
Slandering :: Slandering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slande.
Belie :: Belie (n.) To tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander.
Maledicent :: Maledicent (a.) Speaking reproachfully; slanderous.
Sclaundre :: Sclaundre (n.) Slander.
Poison :: Poison (n.) To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind..
Backbite :: Backbite (v. i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
Calumnious :: Calumnious (a.) Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports..
Substrate :: Substractor (n.) A detractor; a slanderer.
Strumstrum :: Strumpet (v. t.) To dishonor with the reputation of being a strumpet; hence, to belie; to slander..
Rake :: Rake (v. t.) To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town..
Slander :: Slander (n.) 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..
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