All 3 Uses of
slander
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- This is for all,— I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth Have you so slander any moment leisure As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.†
Scene 1.3 *
- Slanders, sir: for the satirical slave says here that old men have grey beards; that their faces are wrinkled; their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum; and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams: all which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down; for you yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if, like a crab, you could go backward.†
Scene 2.2
- ] Come, Gertrude, we'll call up our wisest friends; And let them know both what we mean to do And what's untimely done: so haply slander,— Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter, As level as the cannon to his blank, Transports his poison'd shot,—may miss our name, And hit the woundless air.†
Scene 4.1
Definition:
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(slander) lie to damage the reputation of another; or the lies toldeditor's notes: The legal distinction between libel and slander is that libel is an oral offense while slander is written or published.