Definition of slander in English:

slander

noun ˈslɑːndəˈslændər

mass nounLaw

1The action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation.
he is suing the TV company for slander
Compare with libel
Example sentencesExamples
- Not long ago, however, the vice president filed a slander suit against some members of the Taiwan media.
- No need to set him off on a slander suit.
- A slander case with global connections has been simmering in Chinatown since November.
- The slander cases in the years between 1870 and 1890 bear out this assertion.
- Libel and slander laws are commonly used to punish unacceptable speech.
Synonyms
defamation, defamation of character, character assassination, misrepresentation of character, calumny, libel
1. 1.1count noun A false and malicious spoken statement.
  I've had just about all I can stomach of your slanders
  Example sentencesExamples
  I cannot tell you how much of this is truth or malicious slander.
  There is therefore no basis for a cause of action of slander of title.
  The response of students to it should banish slanders about ‘student apathy’.
  One simple reason is that giving credence to honest reports can open the door to malicious slanders of every kind.
  Prominent Americans like Henry Ford spewed vile slanders about them.
  Over against the malicious slanders of these men is the nearly universal admiration for Othello.
  All of this can be had without the malicious slander or the scandalous headlines.
  That, in my view, is the best defense against the slanders, lies, and outrageous absurdities of critics like Cornwell and Goldhagen.
  If the most vicious slanders imaginable and rampant election fraud don't constitute fighting dirty, what would?
  Such slanders are nothing more or less than Social Racism - the belief that certain people are ‘trash’ because of an accident of birth.
  Countries shot back and forth at each other with slanders and false accusations.
  I think, though, that we should all promise not to sue, however vile the slanders and libels might become.
  The defendants are further entitled to know who allegedly uttered the slander, what was said and to whom.
  In the hope that the professor has since repented of such vicious slander, I do not mention the name.
  Mass arrests and a slander campaign have been the rule ever since.
  Ad hominem slanders are fine when directed at former comrades.
  I had the same reaction when the slanders mounted against Thomas.
  However, I hear from others that petty slanders are not only common at HP, they're pretty much a house speciality.
  For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, and slanders.
  He vanished into the wilderness in 1848, and shortly afterwards disappeared again beneath a pile of odious slanders.
  Synonyms
  defamation, defamation of character, character assassination, misrepresentation of character, calumny, libel
  scandalmongering, malicious gossip, muckraking, smear campaigning, disparagement, denigration, derogation, aspersions, vilification, traducement, obloquy, backbiting, scurrility
  lie, slur, smear, untruth, false accusation, false report, insult, slight
  informal mud-slinging
  North American informal bad-mouthing
  archaic contumely

verb ˈslɑːndəˈslændər

[with object]

Make false and damaging statements about (someone)
they were accused of slandering the head of state
Example sentencesExamples
- When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly.
- I would like to point out at this juncture that I have never slandered her.
- Now, if Coleman were the responsible journalist he claims to be, don't you think he would have done a little investigation before slandering us again?
- For their pains, they are slandered and vilified by the likes of Afshah.
- Without libeling or slandering anybody, can you talk about murders like that in isolation from the political situation?
- Isn't this the same administration which slanders all opponents and threatened to fire an analyst for telling the truth?
- I respect that you have withheld your name whilst slandering me and all the brownies I live with in brownsville.
- No more worries about slandering Lee Hsien Yang accidentally.
- I wrote Pejman to tell him I was slandering him, and he wrote back to offer an unsurprisingly able defense against my charges.
- He was shamed by a national radio station who slandered him by suggesting that his favorite band is The Carpenters.
- I have decided to close the thread on DARP and remove the thread which slandered him and I know I MUST offer an explanation.
- ‘Come along now Mrs. Mason,’ the deputy said with a sigh. ‘You can't go around slandering an innocent man.’
- His stepmother Zhu treated him badly and always slandered him in the front of his father.
- I was too cut off from the world to know that the news of my arrest had broken and that the government was slandering me in the press.
- When Vajpayee prevented them from violating court orders on the Babri Masjid site, they started slandering him in public.
- These people slandered me in the worst kind of ways, and made me feel like I was worth nothing.
- Once, a competitor was slandering us to some potential customers.
- I asked my father if I could put the previous post up, as he and my mother are slandered libellously.
- He slandered his comrades and he did it, as I wrote in the May 3 issue of National Review, by ‘Americanizing’ Soviet propaganda.
- He slandered his fellow soldiers, calling them indiscriminate killers and comparing them to Genghis Kahn.
Synonyms
defame, defame someone's character, blacken someone's name, give someone a bad name, tell lies about, speak ill/evil of, drag through the mud/mire, throw/sling/fling mud at, sully someone's reputation, libel, smear, run a smear campaign against, cast aspersions on, spread scandal about, besmirch, tarnish, taint, misrepresent
malign, traduce, vilify, calumniate, disparage, denigrate, decry, run down
North American slur
British informal do a hatchet job on
rare derogate, asperse, vilipend

Derivatives

slanderer

noun ˈslɑːndərəˈslænd(ə)rər

After work, his fellow worker was still mad and felt bad not identifying the slanderer.
Example sentencesExamples
- The press treated them badly because they were slanderers whose stories did not check out.
- You are quite right to hate such base slanderers, and you ought to be revenged upon them for their evil words.
- But you know, my slanderers will always try to find a reason for bashing me.
- Every sermon he would rail against backbiters, slanderers, hypocrites, perverts, etc.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French esclandre, alteration of escandle, from late Latin scandalum (see scandal).

scandal from Middle English:
The words scandal and slander (Middle English) are closely related. Both go back to Latin scandalum ‘cause of offence’, from Greek skandalon ‘snare, stumbling block’. Originally scandal was a term restricted to the Christian Church. It referred to behaviour by a religious person that might bring discredit on their beliefs, and then, going back to the idea of a ‘stumbling block’, something that hinders faith. Our modern sense of an event causing general public outrage dates from the late 16th century and is first recorded in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors: ‘I wonder much That you would put me to this shame and trouble, And not without some scandal to your self, With circumstance and oaths, so to deny this chain, which now you wear so openly’. See libel

Rhymes

Alexander, commander, demander, Lahnda

Definition of slander in US English:

slander

nounˈslandərˈslændər

Law

1The action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation.
he is suing the TV network for slander
Compare with libel
Example sentencesExamples
- A slander case with global connections has been simmering in Chinatown since November.
- The slander cases in the years between 1870 and 1890 bear out this assertion.
- Not long ago, however, the vice president filed a slander suit against some members of the Taiwan media.
- No need to set him off on a slander suit.
- Libel and slander laws are commonly used to punish unacceptable speech.
Synonyms
defamation, defamation of character, character assassination, misrepresentation of character, calumny, libel
1. 1.1 A false and malicious spoken statement.
  I've had just about all I can stomach of your slanders
  Example sentencesExamples
  If the most vicious slanders imaginable and rampant election fraud don't constitute fighting dirty, what would?
  For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, and slanders.
  He vanished into the wilderness in 1848, and shortly afterwards disappeared again beneath a pile of odious slanders.
  Mass arrests and a slander campaign have been the rule ever since.
  I had the same reaction when the slanders mounted against Thomas.
  The response of students to it should banish slanders about ‘student apathy’.
  Prominent Americans like Henry Ford spewed vile slanders about them.
  All of this can be had without the malicious slander or the scandalous headlines.
  Over against the malicious slanders of these men is the nearly universal admiration for Othello.
  However, I hear from others that petty slanders are not only common at HP, they're pretty much a house speciality.
  I think, though, that we should all promise not to sue, however vile the slanders and libels might become.
  The defendants are further entitled to know who allegedly uttered the slander, what was said and to whom.
  There is therefore no basis for a cause of action of slander of title.
  Countries shot back and forth at each other with slanders and false accusations.
  One simple reason is that giving credence to honest reports can open the door to malicious slanders of every kind.
  I cannot tell you how much of this is truth or malicious slander.
  That, in my view, is the best defense against the slanders, lies, and outrageous absurdities of critics like Cornwell and Goldhagen.
  In the hope that the professor has since repented of such vicious slander, I do not mention the name.
  Such slanders are nothing more or less than Social Racism - the belief that certain people are ‘trash’ because of an accident of birth.
  Ad hominem slanders are fine when directed at former comrades.
  Synonyms
  defamation, defamation of character, character assassination, misrepresentation of character, calumny, libel

verbˈslandərˈslændər

[with object]

Make false and damaging statements about (someone)
they were accused of slandering the head of state
Example sentencesExamples
- No more worries about slandering Lee Hsien Yang accidentally.
- I would like to point out at this juncture that I have never slandered her.
- He was shamed by a national radio station who slandered him by suggesting that his favorite band is The Carpenters.
- Now, if Coleman were the responsible journalist he claims to be, don't you think he would have done a little investigation before slandering us again?
- He slandered his fellow soldiers, calling them indiscriminate killers and comparing them to Genghis Kahn.
- I respect that you have withheld your name whilst slandering me and all the brownies I live with in brownsville.
- I wrote Pejman to tell him I was slandering him, and he wrote back to offer an unsurprisingly able defense against my charges.
- He slandered his comrades and he did it, as I wrote in the May 3 issue of National Review, by ‘Americanizing’ Soviet propaganda.
- ‘Come along now Mrs. Mason,’ the deputy said with a sigh. ‘You can't go around slandering an innocent man.’
- His stepmother Zhu treated him badly and always slandered him in the front of his father.
- I asked my father if I could put the previous post up, as he and my mother are slandered libellously.
- When Vajpayee prevented them from violating court orders on the Babri Masjid site, they started slandering him in public.
- For their pains, they are slandered and vilified by the likes of Afshah.
- When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly.
- Isn't this the same administration which slanders all opponents and threatened to fire an analyst for telling the truth?
- Without libeling or slandering anybody, can you talk about murders like that in isolation from the political situation?
- These people slandered me in the worst kind of ways, and made me feel like I was worth nothing.
- Once, a competitor was slandering us to some potential customers.
- I have decided to close the thread on DARP and remove the thread which slandered him and I know I MUST offer an explanation.
- I was too cut off from the world to know that the news of my arrest had broken and that the government was slandering me in the press.
Synonyms
defame, defame someone's character, blacken someone's name, give someone a bad name, tell lies about, speak evil of, speak ill of, drag through the mire, drag through the mud, fling mud at, sling mud at, throw mud at, sully someone's reputation, libel, smear, run a smear campaign against, cast aspersions on, spread scandal about, besmirch, tarnish, taint, misrepresent

Origin

Middle English: from Old French esclandre, alteration of escandle, from late Latin scandalum (see scandal).

单词	slander
释义	Definition of slander in English: slander noun ˈslɑːndəˈslændər mass nounLaw 1The action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation. he is suing the TV company for slander Compare with libel Example sentencesExamples Not long ago, however, the vice president filed a slander suit against some members of the Taiwan media. No need to set him off on a slander suit. A slander case with global connections has been simmering in Chinatown since November. The slander cases in the years between 1870 and 1890 bear out this assertion. Libel and slander laws are commonly used to punish unacceptable speech. Synonyms defamation, defamation of character, character assassination, misrepresentation of character, calumny, libel 1.1count noun A false and malicious spoken statement. I've had just about all I can stomach of your slanders Example sentencesExamples I cannot tell you how much of this is truth or malicious slander. There is therefore no basis for a cause of action of slander of title. The response of students to it should banish slanders about ‘student apathy’. One simple reason is that giving credence to honest reports can open the door to malicious slanders of every kind. Prominent Americans like Henry Ford spewed vile slanders about them. Over against the malicious slanders of these men is the nearly universal admiration for Othello. All of this can be had without the malicious slander or the scandalous headlines. That, in my view, is the best defense against the slanders, lies, and outrageous absurdities of critics like Cornwell and Goldhagen. If the most vicious slanders imaginable and rampant election fraud don't constitute fighting dirty, what would? Such slanders are nothing more or less than Social Racism - the belief that certain people are ‘trash’ because of an accident of birth. Countries shot back and forth at each other with slanders and false accusations. I think, though, that we should all promise not to sue, however vile the slanders and libels might become. The defendants are further entitled to know who allegedly uttered the slander, what was said and to whom. In the hope that the professor has since repented of such vicious slander, I do not mention the name. Mass arrests and a slander campaign have been the rule ever since. Ad hominem slanders are fine when directed at former comrades. I had the same reaction when the slanders mounted against Thomas. However, I hear from others that petty slanders are not only common at HP, they're pretty much a house speciality. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, and slanders. He vanished into the wilderness in 1848, and shortly afterwards disappeared again beneath a pile of odious slanders. Synonyms defamation, defamation of character, character assassination, misrepresentation of character, calumny, libel scandalmongering, malicious gossip, muckraking, smear campaigning, disparagement, denigration, derogation, aspersions, vilification, traducement, obloquy, backbiting, scurrility lie, slur, smear, untruth, false accusation, false report, insult, slight informal mud-slinging North American informal bad-mouthing archaic contumely verb ˈslɑːndəˈslændər [with object] Make false and damaging statements about (someone) they were accused of slandering the head of state Example sentencesExamples When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly. I would like to point out at this juncture that I have never slandered her. Now, if Coleman were the responsible journalist he claims to be, don't you think he would have done a little investigation before slandering us again? For their pains, they are slandered and vilified by the likes of Afshah. Without libeling or slandering anybody, can you talk about murders like that in isolation from the political situation? Isn't this the same administration which slanders all opponents and threatened to fire an analyst for telling the truth? I respect that you have withheld your name whilst slandering me and all the brownies I live with in brownsville. No more worries about slandering Lee Hsien Yang accidentally. I wrote Pejman to tell him I was slandering him, and he wrote back to offer an unsurprisingly able defense against my charges. He was shamed by a national radio station who slandered him by suggesting that his favorite band is The Carpenters. I have decided to close the thread on DARP and remove the thread which slandered him and I know I MUST offer an explanation. ‘Come along now Mrs. Mason,’ the deputy said with a sigh. ‘You can't go around slandering an innocent man.’ His stepmother Zhu treated him badly and always slandered him in the front of his father. I was too cut off from the world to know that the news of my arrest had broken and that the government was slandering me in the press. When Vajpayee prevented them from violating court orders on the Babri Masjid site, they started slandering him in public. These people slandered me in the worst kind of ways, and made me feel like I was worth nothing. Once, a competitor was slandering us to some potential customers. I asked my father if I could put the previous post up, as he and my mother are slandered libellously. He slandered his comrades and he did it, as I wrote in the May 3 issue of National Review, by ‘Americanizing’ Soviet propaganda. He slandered his fellow soldiers, calling them indiscriminate killers and comparing them to Genghis Kahn. Synonyms defame, defame someone's character, blacken someone's name, give someone a bad name, tell lies about, speak ill/evil of, drag through the mud/mire, throw/sling/fling mud at, sully someone's reputation, libel, smear, run a smear campaign against, cast aspersions on, spread scandal about, besmirch, tarnish, taint, misrepresent malign, traduce, vilify, calumniate, disparage, denigrate, decry, run down North American slur British informal do a hatchet job on rare derogate, asperse, vilipend Derivatives slanderer noun ˈslɑːndərəˈslænd(ə)rər After work, his fellow worker was still mad and felt bad not identifying the slanderer. Example sentencesExamples The press treated them badly because they were slanderers whose stories did not check out. You are quite right to hate such base slanderers, and you ought to be revenged upon them for their evil words. But you know, my slanderers will always try to find a reason for bashing me. Every sermon he would rail against backbiters, slanderers, hypocrites, perverts, etc. Origin Middle English: from Old French esclandre, alteration of escandle, from late Latin scandalum (see scandal). scandal from Middle English: The words scandal and slander (Middle English) are closely related. Both go back to Latin scandalum ‘cause of offence’, from Greek skandalon ‘snare, stumbling block’. Originally scandal was a term restricted to the Christian Church. It referred to behaviour by a religious person that might bring discredit on their beliefs, and then, going back to the idea of a ‘stumbling block’, something that hinders faith. Our modern sense of an event causing general public outrage dates from the late 16th century and is first recorded in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors: ‘I wonder much That you would put me to this shame and trouble, And not without some scandal to your self, With circumstance and oaths, so to deny this chain, which now you wear so openly’. See libel Rhymes Alexander, commander, demander, Lahnda Definition of slander in US English: slander nounˈslandərˈslændər Law 1The action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation. he is suing the TV network for slander Compare with libel Example sentencesExamples A slander case with global connections has been simmering in Chinatown since November. The slander cases in the years between 1870 and 1890 bear out this assertion. Not long ago, however, the vice president filed a slander suit against some members of the Taiwan media. No need to set him off on a slander suit. Libel and slander laws are commonly used to punish unacceptable speech. Synonyms defamation, defamation of character, character assassination, misrepresentation of character, calumny, libel 1.1 A false and malicious spoken statement. I've had just about all I can stomach of your slanders Example sentencesExamples If the most vicious slanders imaginable and rampant election fraud don't constitute fighting dirty, what would? For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, and slanders. He vanished into the wilderness in 1848, and shortly afterwards disappeared again beneath a pile of odious slanders. Mass arrests and a slander campaign have been the rule ever since. I had the same reaction when the slanders mounted against Thomas. The response of students to it should banish slanders about ‘student apathy’. Prominent Americans like Henry Ford spewed vile slanders about them. All of this can be had without the malicious slander or the scandalous headlines. Over against the malicious slanders of these men is the nearly universal admiration for Othello. However, I hear from others that petty slanders are not only common at HP, they're pretty much a house speciality. I think, though, that we should all promise not to sue, however vile the slanders and libels might become. The defendants are further entitled to know who allegedly uttered the slander, what was said and to whom. There is therefore no basis for a cause of action of slander of title. Countries shot back and forth at each other with slanders and false accusations. One simple reason is that giving credence to honest reports can open the door to malicious slanders of every kind. I cannot tell you how much of this is truth or malicious slander. That, in my view, is the best defense against the slanders, lies, and outrageous absurdities of critics like Cornwell and Goldhagen. In the hope that the professor has since repented of such vicious slander, I do not mention the name. Such slanders are nothing more or less than Social Racism - the belief that certain people are ‘trash’ because of an accident of birth. Ad hominem slanders are fine when directed at former comrades. Synonyms defamation, defamation of character, character assassination, misrepresentation of character, calumny, libel verbˈslandərˈslændər [with object] Make false and damaging statements about (someone) they were accused of slandering the head of state Example sentencesExamples No more worries about slandering Lee Hsien Yang accidentally. I would like to point out at this juncture that I have never slandered her. He was shamed by a national radio station who slandered him by suggesting that his favorite band is The Carpenters. Now, if Coleman were the responsible journalist he claims to be, don't you think he would have done a little investigation before slandering us again? He slandered his fellow soldiers, calling them indiscriminate killers and comparing them to Genghis Kahn. I respect that you have withheld your name whilst slandering me and all the brownies I live with in brownsville. I wrote Pejman to tell him I was slandering him, and he wrote back to offer an unsurprisingly able defense against my charges. He slandered his comrades and he did it, as I wrote in the May 3 issue of National Review, by ‘Americanizing’ Soviet propaganda. ‘Come along now Mrs. Mason,’ the deputy said with a sigh. ‘You can't go around slandering an innocent man.’ His stepmother Zhu treated him badly and always slandered him in the front of his father. I asked my father if I could put the previous post up, as he and my mother are slandered libellously. When Vajpayee prevented them from violating court orders on the Babri Masjid site, they started slandering him in public. For their pains, they are slandered and vilified by the likes of Afshah. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly. Isn't this the same administration which slanders all opponents and threatened to fire an analyst for telling the truth? Without libeling or slandering anybody, can you talk about murders like that in isolation from the political situation? These people slandered me in the worst kind of ways, and made me feel like I was worth nothing. Once, a competitor was slandering us to some potential customers. I have decided to close the thread on DARP and remove the thread which slandered him and I know I MUST offer an explanation. I was too cut off from the world to know that the news of my arrest had broken and that the government was slandering me in the press. Synonyms defame, defame someone's character, blacken someone's name, give someone a bad name, tell lies about, speak evil of, speak ill of, drag through the mire, drag through the mud, fling mud at, sling mud at, throw mud at, sully someone's reputation, libel, smear, run a smear campaign against, cast aspersions on, spread scandal about, besmirch, tarnish, taint, misrepresent Origin Middle English: from Old French esclandre, alteration of escandle, from late Latin scandalum (see scandal).
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