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US
/ˈsɫændɝəs/
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[ UK /slˈɑːndəɹəs/ ]
[ UK /slˈɑːndəɹəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
How To Use slanderous In A Sentence
- In the second sentence, dripping with rancor, Weisbrot slanderously implies that the United States feels no obligation whatsoever to tolerate popularly elected democracies if it has policy difference with that regime.
- Slanderous tales about winners are fabricated by losers.
- For far too many people associated with the music, the venomous and slanderous verbal assaults on other artists that is a staple of rap - and which seems to feed its gunplay - is proof of the genre's authenticity.
- Instead they tune to the slanderous Fox "News" - for the debates, a clearly pubescent network that pulled in almost the same amount of viewers as Disney's ABC - the number one rated network for the un-contentious debates that featured the theatrics of the ever-ingratiating Sarah of the Welcome Wagon. The John McStrange & Winky Show
- As film historian Thomas Doherty notes, the ‘slanderous central conceit’ of High Noon was that ‘the Old West was packed with no-account yellow-bellies.’
- I assure you that no one's been making slanderous accusations- ' `Rubbish, you've obviously been inundated with them! ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
- This anti-Polonism on the part of misinformed novelists, script writers and film directors is revealed in shameful and slanderous distortions of history (Poles shown collaborating with the Nazis, assistance being withheld from the heroic Ghetto freedom fighters, etc., etc.). Poland and the Jews: An Exchange
- If a letter is potentially libelous, slanderous or appears to have been written with malice or harmful intent, it will be edited or rejected.
- The National Trumpet, which was the Radical organ for the State, very naturally gave a different version of the affair, denounced it as a most outrageous political murder, and inveighed most bitterly against what it termed the inhuman barbarity of the opposition journals, which, not content with the death of Walters, sought to slay his good name by slanderous imputation, and to blast the reputation of the stricken widow with baseless hints of complicity in his death. A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools
- Or you might plead that it was not slanderous because it was true.