Definition of slander

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Slander (v. t.) To bring discredit or shame upon by one's acts.

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Slander :: Slander (n.) Disgrace; reproach; dishonor; opprobrium.
Backbiting :: Backbiting (n.) Secret slander; detraction.
Slanderous :: Slanderous (a.) Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander.
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).
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..
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..
Insinuation :: Insinuation (n.) That which is insinuated; a hint; a suggestion or intimation by distant allusion; as, slander may be conveyed by insinuations..
Scandal :: Scandal (v. t.) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander.
Maledicent :: Maledicent (a.) Speaking reproachfully; slanderous.
Disslander :: Disslander (v. t.) To slander.
Defamatory :: Defamatory (a.) Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings..
Disslander :: Disslander (n.) Slander.
Poison :: Poison (n.) To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind..
Insular :: Insular (n.) An islander.
Calumny :: Calumny (n.) False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction..
Calumnious :: Calumnious (a.) Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports..
Slanderer :: Slanderer (n.) One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator.
Disslanderous :: Disslanderous (a.) Slanderous.
Slander :: Slander (v. t.) 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.
Slander :: 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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