SLANDERER Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

slanderer

noun

Definition of slanderer

as in calumniator

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Noun

The defining moment of this campaign came with an ad made by the Ramaswamy campaign that tried to use Acton's estranged mother, who fled the state with a husband who was indicted for raping Acton as a child, to call Acton a liar.

— Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2026
Millions of dollars poured in for negative ads, reaching its peak in October when Ramaswamy's campaign launched a $4 million ad featuring Acton's estranged mother calling her a liar.

— Caroline Linton, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of liar

Noun

Martinez called Mejia a shameless perjurer who became a government witness only after reviewing the evidence against him and realizing he was caught dead to rights for his own crimes.

— Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2024
Banks’s pathos matches that shown to Kennisha — a remarkable feat of storytelling that Just Mercy never achieves with its pathetic hillbilly perjurer (Tim Blake Nelson).

— Armond White, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020

Definition of perjurer

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