[
UK
/slˈɑːndɐ/
]
[ US /ˈsɫændɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈsɫændɝ/ ]
VERB
-
charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
The article in the paper sullied my reputation
The journalists have defamed me!
NOUN
- words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another
- an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
How To Use slander In A Sentence
- I'm personally offended both by the error on the Times website and by your association of me with what you call the intentional slander of US marines. Rightwing Spin That Haditha Massacre Never Occurred
- Hamlet as a play is similarly preoccupied by slander, misrepresentation and selves fabricated from the nothings of rhetorical tropes.
- Islanders on the frontline hid in bomb shelters. The Sun
- Yes, he disowns his mother and his wife attempted suicide as a result of being publicly slandered by him, but we also know how much he cares about his daughter.
- But the Marshall islanders take little interest in those factors - what count instead are the shapes and orientations of the ocean swells that break around islands.
- It appears that after Cook was wounded in the back, islanders clubbed him to death.
- The islanders could barely survive without an export crop.
- There was formerly a tribe of South Sea islanders who, until discovered by explorers, had never made the connection between sexual congress and pregnancy.
- I respect that you have withheld your name whilst slandering me and all the brownies I live with in brownsville.
- Posting of slanderous, libelous, abusive or defamatory material is totally prohibited.