as in insulting
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as in libeling
to make untrue and harmful statements about
for some reason, that newspaper seems determined to slander one particular celebrity
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Recent Examples of slandering
Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
And slandering council members, who publicly supported Madigan before Khadija Walker was nominated, is disrespectful and insulting.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slandering
Adjective
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Altman seems to find the question insulting.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
10 Nov. 2025
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To educate all of them in similar ways is insulting, and silly.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The vacuum cleaner has powerful suction, and the mop cleans without sloshing and smearing water on the floor.—
Terri Williams,
Architectural Digest,
3 Nov. 2025
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The little brother is still contentedly working on his painting, dipping his brush into his pots and then smearing it across the paper.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The appeals court backed the jury’s decision that Trump would not stop defaming Carroll unless he was hit with a substantial financial penalty.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
11 Nov. 2025
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He was found liable in 2023 for defaming two Georgia election workers after falsely accusing them of ballot fraud during the 2020 presidential election.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The fact that David famously sued the filmmakers prior to its Sundance premiere, claiming the documentary was defamatory to him and his company, Westgate Resorts.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
10 Nov. 2025
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The additional $3 million was awarded to Fischgrund due to defamatory comments made about her that harmed her reputation and caused her shame.—
William Melhado,
Sacbee.com,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Defense attorneys have also decried violations of fair-trial rights, saying that the prosecutor in the cases has sought to influence the jury pool by maligning those charged.—
LAUREN CARASIK,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Feb. 2017
Adjective
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Emily’s father didn’t say it in a disparaging way—more like That was just Ryan.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
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And there would be lots of soldiers around, either Army or National Guard, and the people who were civilians would be young people, very disparaging about the military.—
Steve Baltin,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
Verb
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To be put in this category is discrediting.—
Meredith Wilshere,
PEOPLE,
2 Nov. 2025
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Already, Cuba’s top diplomats have been sharing propaganda content discrediting Machado as a warmonger.—
Nora Gamez Torres,
Miami Herald,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In recent weeks, though, her group has doubled in size, and while in the past there were only two or three posts per day, Mitchell and her new moderators now have to wade through 60-plus comments ranging from helpful to libelous.—
Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
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And in this age of clickbait journalism, even those members of the legacy media have resorted to libelous headlines and false reports to generate views.—
Zach Schonfeld,
The Hill,
24 Mar. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Slandering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slandering. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.
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