Definition of Slander

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Slander

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.

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.

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Slander Quotations

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. Mencken

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
Victor Hugo

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Gustave Flaubert

Slander is worse than cannibalism.
John Chrysostom

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
Charles Caleb Colton

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.
John Bright

Slander Translations

slander in Danish is bagtale
slander in Dutch is roddelen, kwaadspreken, belasteren
slander in Italian is calunniare
slander in Spanish is calumnia, calumniar

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