SLAG Synonyms: 98 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

chiefly British

as in to blame

to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of London reviewers slagged off the new play for being another kitchen-sink drama

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Recent Examples of slag

Verb

That’s not meant to slag his breakout 30-goal season, though. —

The Athletic Nhl, New York Times, 3 May 2025 Navel gazing obsession with one Twitter account and slagging colleagues. —

George Caulkin, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024

Noun

There are some issues with properties that residents who moved to Portage in the last 15 years or so assumed always flooded, but many of those problems were caused by the city using slag sand when salt supplies were low to address ice on streets. —

Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026 The technology uses the slag to combine it with fluxing agents. —

Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for slag

Recent Examples of Synonyms for slag

Verb

The Mets have received little from the back end of their rotation — ironically, Peterson is one of the pitchers to blame here, alongside Kodai Senga — but Scott could provide a higher floor and ceiling in one of those spots.

— Tim Britton, New York Times, 4 May 2026
In 1998, as many as 1,000 birds – mostly pelicans, wading birds and raptors – died around Lake Apopka, a tragedy blamed on poisoning from the pesticides used on the muck farms.

— Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 May 2026