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slander
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  • Jason would never listen to such slander!  (source)
    slander = lies told to damage another's reputation
  • Have you forgotten how they slander us in their schools?  (source)
    slander = lie to damage another's reputation
  • Young fellow, you'd better get your facts straight before making such outrageous and slanderous charges.  (source)
    slanderous = of words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another
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  • Do not buy this book! Ladies of Jackson, do not support this slander...  (source)
    slander = lie in such a way as to damage the reputation of another; or the lies told
  • In less violent form, in subtle digs and supercilious little drawing-room slanders, Southerners who had ventured north were to endure such exploitative assaults upon their indwelling guilt during an era of unalleviated discomfort which ended officially on a morning in August, 1963, when on North Water Street in Edgartown, Massachusetts, the youngish, straw-haired, dimple-kneed wife of the yacht-club commodore, a prominent Brahmin investment banker, was seen brandishing a copy of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time as she uttered to a friend, in tones of clamp-jawed desolation, these words: "My dear, it's going to happen to all of us!"†  (source)
    slanders = lies that damage the reputation of another; or the process of telling such lies
  • It was whispered about that all was not as it appeared: some even hinted that Father had set the fire himself, a slanderous allegation.†  (source)
    slanderous = of words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another
  • Just recall to your mind what these malicious creatures wrote in the papers about papa, and how horribly they slandered him.  (source)
    slandered = falsely said things that damaged the reputation of another
  • He's a slanderer, and he had no nose.†  (source)
    slanderer = someone who lies in a way that damages the reputation of another
  • "Oh, you are slandering yourself," said Emma.†  (source)
    slandering = lying in a way that damages the reputation of another
  • This permission, we feel bound to say, was graciously granted; which compels us here to give a public contradiction to the slanderers who pretend that we live under a government but moderately indulgent to men of letters.  (source)
    slanderers = people who lie to damage another's reputation
  • Thy face is mine, and thou hast slander'd it.†  (source)
    slander'd = lied in such a way as to damage the reputation of another
  • 50:20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.†  (source)
    slanderest = lie in such a way as to damage the reputation of another
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou slanderest" in older English, today we say "You slander."
  • But I have been always the same in all my actions, public as well as private, and never have I yielded any base compliance to those who are slanderously termed my disciples, or to any other.†  (source)
    slanderously = in a manner that falsely says something that damages the reputation of another
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