Slander is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SLANDER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to defame
• make false and damaging statements about (someone)
• To defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false report; to tarnish or impair the reputation of by false tales maliciously told or propagated; to calumniate.
• To bring discredit or shame upon by one\'s acts.
• charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
• utter slander about
NOUN:
• a false and malicious spoken statement
• false and malicious statement about a person
• A false tale or report maliciously uttered, tending to injure the reputation of another; the malicious utterance of defamatory reports; the dissemination of malicious tales or suggestions to the injury of another.
• Disgrace; reproach; dishonor; opprobrium.
• Formerly, defamation generally, whether oral or written; in modern usage, defamation by words spoken; utterance of false, malicious, and defamatory words, tending to the damage and derogation of another; calumny. See the Note under Defamation.
• words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another
• an abusive attack on a person\'s character or good name
• the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation

Words related to SLANDER

calumniation16 slandered11 slanderer10 slanderers11 slandering12 slanderous11 slanderously16 slanderousness15 slanders9 traduce10

How to use SLANDER in a sentence

• These seem to be the chief kinds of slander, and most common ways of practising it.
• Now the question is, What counter-trick avails for the other party? for if he has recourse to the same rule, there will be blows, or a duel, or an action for slander.
• Marry, this well carried shall on her behalf Change slander to remorse.
• A hundred guineas a year, Sir George, from one in your position to one in mine, would only lay me open to the tongue of slander.
• The upshot, then, is that the slander is ended, the jewel is regained and in the process Krishna acquires two further wives.
• Our kingdom wrested from us, if we engage in battle, our deeds when known to the world will procure for us fame and not slander.
• To speak of indolence as if it were a vice is just a great big verbal slander.
• This choked up all the slander of the town, and directed it into one channel upon my devoted head.
• Every Republican man knew that, as to himself at least, your charge was a slander, and he was not much inclined by it to cast his vote in your favor.
• But this slander they put forward as a motive that gave rise to a murderous impulse on the part of the prisoner.
• The tea-table has been the butt of many a jest and sarcasm, as a fountain of gossip and slander.
• It had been a good friend to me and not for worlds would I slander it.
• I dread lest I have spoilt your happiness, Eveline, lest a breath of slander should touch your name.
• And then there comes to the parties who are so circumstanced a certain sense of shame, and along with this a disposition towards calumny and slander.
• I will begin at the beginning, and ask what is the accusation which has given rise to the slander of me, and in fact has encouraged Meletus to proof this charge against me.
• Report says that there is a stronger tie between them, but this is a base slander upon the generous nature of my father.
• No slander against Luther has ever gone unanswered.
• But the emperor did not disclose these things to the world, either because he paid no heed to the slander, or because this course seemed better to him.
• In general, the State laws appear to have made the presses responsible for slander as far as is consistent with its useful freedom.
• Shall I say that you, like the South, repudiated? No! that is a slander of our adversaries.
• She feared that her anonymous letters would result in her arrest and public trial for slander, as they would have done.
• It is because of this that foes, both from within and from without, have turned themselves with subtlety and craft to spreading slander.
• Is there any foundation whatever for this slander? Consider well, my husband, and if you should find that I have sinned by a gesture, by a smile, banish me from your presence.
• She knew how brutally the world judges, and how the mere fact that a woman was young and alone justified any coarseness of slander.
• It was the monstrous slander of this minority that induced the alderman to stand up morally for his revolver and to continue talking about it.
• If it be a written imputation, it is libel and not slander.
• But let his spirit be no longer troubled, if it were ever troubled by neglect or slander, for the world, and first and foremost his own country, has paid him due honour.
• Now for the first time in his life he felt the breath of slander on his cheek, and it flushed hotly.
• On the same day, Hughes and Knight were arrested on the charge of slander against William Craft.
• The truth of such accusations seems highly improbable, and they may well be regarded as malicious slander.

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