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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Belie :: Belie (n.) To tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander.
Slandering :: Slandering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slande.
Scandalize :: Scandalize (v. t.) To reproach; to libel; to defame; to slander.
Foul-spoken :: Foul-spoken (a.) Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language..
Malign :: Malign (a.) To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.
Stab :: Stab (v. t.) Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation..
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.
Maledicent :: Maledicent (a.) Speaking reproachfully; slanderous.
Slanderous :: Slanderous (a.) Given or disposed to slander; uttering 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..
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..
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).
Scandal :: Scandal (v. t.) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander.
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..
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..
Disslanderous :: Disslanderous (a.) Slanderous.
Disclaunder :: Disclaunder (v. t.) To injure one's good name; to slander.
Slander :: Slander (v. t.) To bring discredit or shame upon by one's acts.
Backbiting :: Backbiting (n.) Secret slander; detraction.
Poison :: Poison (n.) To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind..
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