Sample Sentences for
slander
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    I remind you that the penalty for slander is heavy.  (source)
    slander = falsely saying something that damages the reputation of another
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    Have you forgotten how they slander us in their schools?  (source)
    slander = lie to damage another's reputation
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    General Macarthur shouted: "A pack of damn lies! Slander!"  (source)
    Slander = lies told to damage the reputation of another
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    'Catherine!' said Isabella, calling up her dignity, and disdaining to struggle from the tight grasp that held her, 'I'd thank you to adhere to the truth and not slander me, even in joke!'  (source)
    slander = tell lies to damage the reputation of
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    The way he had rescued her from Ser Ilyn and the Hound, why, it was almost like the songs, like the time Serwyn of the Mirror Shield saved the Princess Daeryssa from the giants, or Prince Aemon the Dragonknight championing Queen Naerys's honor against evil Ser Morgil's slanders.†  (source)
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    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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    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
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    He's a slanderer, and he had no nose.†  (source)
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    I didn't feel guilty about slandering her, as the poor creature was already well out of it.†  (source)
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    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
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    Thy face is mine, and thou hast slander'd it.†  (source)
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    50:20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou slanderest" in older English, today we say "You slander."
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    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)
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