All 12 Uses of
slander
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- But the spirit of folly, which had caught up Fyodor Pavlovitch, and was bearing him on the current of his own nerves into lower and lower depths of ignominy, prompted him with this old slander.†
Chpt 2
- He was only speaking from confused memory of old slanders.†
Chpt 2 *
- Hate not those who reject you, who insult you, who abuse and slander you.†
Chpt 4
- No one will know of it, it can give rise to no unjust slander.†
Chpt 4
- It's either an attempt to slander me, or the hallucination of a madman," Mitya still shouted.†
Chpt 9
- He's slandering me from spiteā¦.†
Chpt 9
- I am a slandered man.†
Chpt 11
- No, she had not intentionally slandered him when she cried that Mitya despised her for her bowing down to him!†
Chpt 12
- Perhaps people will cry out against me that I am morbid, hysterical, that it is a monstrous slander, that I am exaggerating.†
Chpt 12
- You will say that was dishonorable: it's dishonorable to slander even the dead, and even to save a brother.†
Chpt 12
- True, but what if he slandered him unconsciously?†
Chpt 12
- He slandered him in society, injured him, calumniated him, bought up his unpaid debts to get him thrown into prison.†
Chpt 12
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.