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Examples of slander in a Sentence
She was accused of slandering her former boss.
Recent Examples of slander from the Web
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God’s mercy and justice on those who have blasphemed God’s Holy Name, those who slander and bear false witness, and those who commit murder or justify murder as a means for fighting criminality in our country.
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God’s mercy and justice on those who have blasphemed God’s holy name, those who slander and bear false witness and those who commit murder or justify murder as a means for fighting criminality.
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The former business manager for Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin said Tuesday she's being unfairly defamed in a lawsuit accusing her along with two of his children of misusing his credit cards and slandering him.
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Looking at the suburbs, therefore, provides a way of understanding a vast segment of the public without the need to endorse or slander their homes.
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Up until recently, any attempt to slander their names in international media would have felt random.
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And not to be slandered, one of the hotels confirmed with a Kickstarter backer that the rooms that had been booked through the Kickstarter rewards program had been canceled.
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Badasch regarded herself as a Trump loyalist, and felt that she had been slandered.
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Sessions late Friday night fired McCabe, a little more than 24 hours before McCabe was set to retire - a move McCabe alleged was an attempt to slander him and undermine the ongoing special counsel investigation into the Trump campaign.
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First Known Use of slander
13th century
Synonym Discussion of slander
malign, traduce, asperse, vilify, calumniate, defame, slander mean to injure by speaking ill of. malign suggests specific and often subtle misrepresentation but may not always imply deliberate lying.
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- the most maligned monarch in British history
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- so traduced the governor that he was driven from office
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- both candidates aspersed the other's motives
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- no criminal was more vilified in the press
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- falsely calumniated as a traitor
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- sued them for defaming her reputation
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- town gossips slandered their good name
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: the utterance of false charges or misrepresentations which defame and damage another's reputation
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: a false and defamatory oral statement about a person — compare libel
Examples of slander in a Sentence
She is being sued for slander.
He was a target of slander.
We've heard countless unsupported slanders about her.
Recent Examples of slander from the Web
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Sadly, this is just the latest incident in a disturbing trend to slander conservatives.
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These dumbfounding slanders, delivered by Joseph McCarthy on the floor of the Senate in the summer of 1951, are well and deservedly forgotten.
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Jewish leaders are fighting back against everything from the bid to silence talk of Polish death camps to the prime minister’s recent slander.
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The dark side of social media – false reports and slander – were more evident than ever during the campaign, but Costa Ricans preferred to vote based on qualities of leadership and big issues such as government debt and inequality.
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Other types of speech including slander, libel or speech that incites violence also are not protected.
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The suit, filed Wednesday, accuses attorney Kurt Meyers and his firm, McGuire Woods, of libel and slander.
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His counterclaim seeks damages for slander, intentional infliction of emotional distress.
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But instead of being held accountable in a court of law, the Washington Post just won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for their lies and slander against me and my family.
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slander Synonyms
Synonyms
aspersing, blackening, defamation, defaming, libel, libeling (or libelling), maligning, smearing, traducing, vilification, vilifying;
Near Antonyms
Related Words
abuse, invective, vituperation;
attack, censure, criticism, denunciation;
belittlement, denigration, disparagement;
hatefulness, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness, spleen, venom, viciousness;
Other Legal Terms
SLANDER Defined for English Language Learners
slander
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: the act of making a false spoken statement that causes people to have a bad opinion of someone
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: a false spoken statement that is made to cause people to have a bad opinion of someone
SLANDER Defined for Kids
slandered;
slandering
: to make a false and damaging statement against
: a false statement that damages another person's reputation
Law Dictionary
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: defamation of a person by unprivileged oral communication made to a third party;
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: defamatory oral statements
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: the tort of oral defamation
- sued his former employer for slander
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An action for slander may be brought without alleging and proving special damages if the statements in question have a plainly harmful character, as by imputing to the plaintiff criminal guilt, serious sexual misconduct, or conduct or a characteristic affecting his or her business or profession.
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