slanderer

How To Use slanderer In A Sentence

• And behold what I would have applied to the tongue of the evil-speaker, had I undertaken to give you a just and natural idea of all the enormity of this vice: I would have said that the tongue of the slanderer is a devouring fire which tarnishes whatever it touches; which exercises its fury on the good grain, equally as on the chaff; on the profane, as on the sacred; which, wherever it passes, leaves only desolation and ruin; digs even into the bowels of the earth, and fixes itself on things the most hidden; turns into vile ashes what only a moment before had appeared to us so precious and brilliant; acts with more violence and danger than ever in the time when it was apparently smothered up and almost extinct; which blackens what it can not consume, and sometimes sparkles and delights before it destroys. Of a Malignant Tongue
• In my case, the slanderer was my mother, and since she was an ‘old woman†™, little could be done to keep her from slandering and libeling me and my husband. Xml's Blinklist.com
• A slanderer is one whose tongue is set on fire of hell; so much, and so directly, do these do the devil's work, that for it the devil's name is given to such. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
• At the same time I desire one part pt the dispute betwixt us may be finished by an answer to these questions: Is not calling a guiltless man an impudent slanderer, pdumny, and quite a different revenge than a slight joke? anc) has not Mr. Warburton done that in the note in question? Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century; comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A.
• You are quite right to hate such base slanderers, and you ought to be revenged upon them for their evil words.
• Intriguing, full of low malice and scheming, a "slanderer and substractor" he certainly was, but no fool. Marion's Faith.
• He called the fellow ribald, villain, javel, back-biter, slanderer, and the son of perdition: citing therewith terrible threatening out of Holy Scripture. The First Book. The First Book of the Communication of Raphael Hythloday, Concerning the Best State of a Commonwealth
• Every sermon he would rail against backbiters, slanderers, hypocrites, perverts, etc.
• They can do so," said the Elector -- "they can call the slanderer to account, and you can do so too, Burgsdorf, if it seems necessary to you. The Youth of the Great Elector
• _ I am not a slanderer, indeed, _indeed_, I am not; here are proofs: your lordship, I find, is called the Count De Valmont; had you not once a relation of the same title, who fell in battle with the The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1