How to Use slander in a Sentence

slander

1 of 2 verb

• She was accused of slandering her former boss.
• To call a place a hell is to slander its users as demons and sinners.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
• The media has been in training—and often paid—to slime me and to slander me for years.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 Feb. 2018
• Detained for 7 years without charge by while my children grew up and my name was slandered.
  — CBS News, 19 May 2017
• No one should slander the brave men & women who carried out this crucial program.
  — Jessica Estepa, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2018
• Let evil recoil on those who slander me; in your faithfulness destroy them.
  — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026
• These left wing loons crucified and slandered him over words that offended them.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 11 Apr. 2018
• But Kalb wasn’t the only cheftestant to slander queso’s good name.
  — Lauren McDowell, Chron, 10 Mar. 2022
• The kind that makes other victims not want to speak out over fears of their character or their work will be slandered.
  — Michael Arceneaux, Glamour, 27 Aug. 2018
• Well, to slander their enemies.
  — Big Think, 23 Apr. 2026
• And suddenly they would be held to higher standards--such as libel and slander laws.
  — Arkansas Online, 6 Dec. 2020
• Let evil recoil on those who slander Kendra; in your faithfulness destroy them.
  — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 14 Apr. 2026
• Myeshia Johnson, who has now too been slandered by the president, would surely rather be left alone.
  — vanityfair.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• This was a reckless attempt to slander our family and smear a great company.
  — CBS News, 29 Aug. 2019
• Morgan & Morgan may deserve to be fired, but that is no reason to slander trial lawyers.
  — WSJ, 27 Mar. 2023
• People tried to murder him, incarcerate him, slander him.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026
• And for most of that time Americans have subjected the birds to slander, torture, and mass slaughter.
  — Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2022
• At the time, the actor dismissed the claims as an attempt to slander Scientology.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• Jerry Jones slandered my name to Cowboys media and national media for months.
  — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 1 Jan. 2026
• Dos Passos left Spain, but Hemingway didn’t let up, slandering him in print for a good while after.
  — Vince Passaro, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
• Now, the ultimate question of whether Walters slandered Miller will return to the district court.
  — Dale Denwalt, Oklahoman, 29 Jan. 2026
• As an obvious first element, there must be a statement, which can either be in writing (libel) or spoken (slander).
  — Schuyler Moore, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• And then the media was slandering our dad’s name and reputation after a lifetime of being a fairly wholesome guy.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 31 Dec. 2025
• Timanovskaya said the Belarusian media have already started to slander her in recent days over the incident.
  — Donald Judd, CNN, 7 Aug. 2021
• The movie follows a cemetery plot salesman who’s struggling to salvage his reputation after he’s been slandered by online lies.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2023
• After he was slandered by rivals, the king banished him and did not follow his advice to ally with a rival kingdom for their mutual defense.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 6 June 2019
• Moe said Miller tried to end Moe's business and slandered his family's name, according to court documents.
  — Ryan Martin, Indianapolis Star, 6 Mar. 2018
• Despite being slandered and mocked by her detractors, Fang Fang emerged as a true hero, revered by her fans and admired by her fellow writers.
  — Jiwei Xiao, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2020
• 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.
  — Anthony Alofsin, The Atlantic, 6 June 2018
• Several were charged with mocking or slandering the Islamic State.
  — Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 1 July 2018

slander

2 of 2 noun

• He was a target of slander.
• She is being sued for slander.
• We've heard countless unsupported slanders about her.
• The Guardian should sue for slander.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2025
• As for whether the new show will feature the same old slander against Baskin, think again.
  — Bianca Rodriguez, Marie Claire, 10 Apr. 2020
• One pines for the day when senators were more artful in their slanders.
  — Larry P. Arnn, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2017
• To invoke a legal term, this is a slander, and many at this point resent it.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2018
• John Burris will try to make a quick buck through slander and race baiting.
  — CBS News, 15 Nov. 2019
• But in combination, the term can land as a moral slander — or worse.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• Jaxson Dart’s father will not hear any more slander about his son.
  — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 29 Dec. 2025
• Those claims amounted to slander and libel, the lawsuit says.
  — Dustin Gardiner, azcentral, 15 June 2018
• But Holmes's stylist, Brie Welch, is not here for the dress-over-jeans slander.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 14 Dec. 2022
• People are refusing to face the truth, but the Nix slander doesn’t sit well with me.
  — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 28 Oct. 2022
• Second thing, accusing someone of gang rape is slander, per se.
  — Fox News, 25 Sep. 2018
• The pope apologized but repeated the charge of slander on his flight back to Rome.
  — Ryan Dube, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2018
• To defend Jews from such slanders was to risk being lumped together with them.
  — Sara Lipton, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
• Jendoubi told me that he’d been perplexed by the flurry of slander that followed the war-crimes report.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• She was later convicted of slander and received a three-year sentence.
  — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
• Well, just the phrase Middle Ages, or the word medieval is already a kind of slander, right?
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2021
• The slander towards the course throughout the week was aplenty, and warranted.
  — Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 May 2026
• That’s not slander to the bill’s opponents, who, flush with success, have showered the governor with praise.
  — Julie Cart, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2019
• Louise Stratten filed a slander lawsuit against Hefner that was later dropped.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2017
• But the history of beer points to a not-so-magical legacy of transatlantic slander and gender roles.
  — Laken Brooks, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2021
• The landlords retaliated against the woman by suing her in state court for slander and abuse of process, a judge found.
  — Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023
• Martinovich is accused of slander against a government official, and faces up to three years in prison.
  — Yuras Karmanau, Star Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
• Some of his personal attacks warrant lawsuits for slander.
  — D. Scott Schmid, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
• In the past year, Knox returned to Italy to challenge a slander conviction that remained on her record.
  — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• And then later walks around with the Ghost of Christmas Future and hears endless slander?
  — James Folta, Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
• How dare the Vikings fans besmirch our good names — what was left of them, anyway — with unfounded and spurious slanders.
  — Mike Newall, Philly.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• Moore filed a counterclaim against Corfman on Tuesday on grounds of defamation and slander.
  — Paul Gattis, AL.com, 12 Apr. 2018