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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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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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Conservatives tended to discredit Bannon and to dismiss Wolff's book as another attempt by the news media to slander the president.
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The pope also asked forgiveness for accusing abuse victims of Bishop Juan Barros of slandering the bishop.
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These left wing loons crucified and slandered him over words that offended them.
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Some Village Board members threatened a lawsuit, contending Durkin’s campaign was slandering the suburb, while some constituents questioned if the board was in the tank for Straub.
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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
Definition of slander
1
: the utterance of false charges or misrepresentations which defame and damage another's reputation
2
: 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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Many of the statistics cited in the speech were false, a slander on some of the most vulnerable people in the country, and Cosby seemed less concerned with black prosperity than with black respectability.
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Moore filed a counterclaim against Corfman on Tuesday on grounds of defamation and slander.
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Trump has also called the allegations false, saying Jackson was the victim of slander.
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Panikarov’s outrage offers a caricature of public memory in Russia, where any negative treatment of past events is interpreted as Western slander.
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Trump has also called the allegations false, saying Jackson was the victim of slander.
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This is why thinking liberals like Dave Rubin, Bret Weinstein and Sam Harris are worried because of the speed and the intensity of slander, demonization by the modern left towards anybody who actually thinks outside the box.
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During the campaign, Trump’s slander against Mexicans was repeated incessantly on Spanish-language news programs, sucking up the oxygen in living rooms across the Coachella Valley like a loud and unruly family member.
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The publication has been the subject of more than 40 libel, slander, and other lawsuits since it was founded in 1979.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'slander.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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
Definition of slander for English Language Learners
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: to make a false spoken statement that causes people to have a bad opinion of someone
slander
Definition of slander for English Language Learners
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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
Definition of slander for Students
slandered;
slandering
: to make a false and damaging statement against
Definition of slander for Students
: a false statement that damages another person's reputation
Law Dictionary
legal Definition of slander
: to utter slander against
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slanderer
nounlegal Definition of slander
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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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