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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Injure :: Injure (v. t.) To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. (b) To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. (c) To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character. (d) To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue. (e) To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the feelings; to grieve; to annoy. (f) To impair, as the intellect or mind..
Insular :: Insular (n.) An islander.
Sclaundre :: Sclaundre (n.) Slander.
Slanderous :: Slanderous (a.) Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander.
Traducer :: Traducer (n.) One who traduces; a slanderer; a calumniator.
Defamatory :: Defamatory (a.) Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings..
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).
Aspersive :: Aspersive (a.) Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous.
Scandalize :: Scandalize (v. t.) To reproach; to libel; to defame; to slander.
Black-mouthed :: Black-mouthed (a.) Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.
Aspersed :: Aspersed (a.) Bespattered; slandered; calumniated.
Calumnious :: Calumnious (a.) Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports..
Backbiting :: Backbiting (n.) Secret slander; detraction.
Scandal :: Scandal (v. t.) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander.
Disslanderous :: Disslanderous (a.) Slanderous.
Defame :: Defame (v. t.) To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse..
Poison :: Poison (n.) To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind..
Malign :: Malign (a.) To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.
Slanderer :: Slanderer (n.) One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator.
Calumny :: Calumny (n.) False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction..
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