Synonyms for slander
ˈslæn dərslan·der

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1. slanderverb

   Synonyms:
   libel, defame

2. slanderverb

   to utter a slanderous statement

   Synonyms:
   defame, libel

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1. slander

   To slander a person is to utter a false and injurious report concerning him; to defame is specifically and directly to attack one's reputation; to defame by spoken words is to slander, by written words, to libel. To asperse is, as it were, to bespatter with injurious charges; to malign is to circulate studied and malicious attacks upon character; to traduce is to exhibit one's real or assumed traits in an odious light; to revile or vilify is to attack with vile abuse. To disparage is to represent one's admitted good traits or acts as less praiseworthy than they would naturally be thought to be, as for instance, by ascribing a man's benevolence to a desire for popularity or display. To libel or slander is to make an assault upon character and repute that comes within the scope of law; the slander is uttered, the libel written, printed, or pictured. To backbite is to speak something secretly to one's injury; to calumniate is to invent as well as utter the injurious charge. One may "abuse," "assail," or vilify another to his face; he asperses, calumniates, slanders, or traduces him behind his back.

   Synonyms:
   asperse, backbite, calumniate, decry, defame, depreciate, disparage, libel, malign, revile, traduce, vilify

   Antonyms:
   defend, eulogize, extol, laud, praise, vindicate

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1. slander

   Synonyms:
   asperse, defame, calumniate, vilify, abuse, scandalize, traduce, belittle, blacken

   Antonyms:
   praise, laud, honor, vindicate, defend, panegyrize, eulogize, shield, commend

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1. slandernoun

   words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another

   Synonyms:
   denigration, calumny, aspersion, defamation

2. aspersion, calumny, slander, defamation, denigrationverb

   an abusive attack on a person's character or good name

   Synonyms:
   hatchet job, calumniation, calumny, sprinkling, traducement, obloquy, defamation, belittling, deprecation, denigration, aspersion, slur

3. defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirchverb

   charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone

   "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"

   Synonyms:
   besmirch, smudge, asperse, maculate, taint, smear, smutch, calumniate, tarnish, denigrate, minimize, blur, defile, sully, stain, daub, smirch, defame, corrupt, belittle, cloud, derogate

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1. • Defamation
   • Speech Act

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1. slanderverb

   Synonyms:
   defame, calumniate, vilify, scandalize, decry, reproach, malign, traduce, brand, blacken, asperse, backbite, libel, lampoon, satirize, run down, inveigh against

2. slandernoun

   Synonyms:
   defamation (maliciously uttered), CALUMNY, aspersion, detraction, backbiting, scandal, obloquy, libel, lampoon

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1. slandernoun

   Synonyms:
   defamation, calumny, aspersion, libel, vilification, scandal, abuse, traducement, backbiting, roorback, vituperation

2. slanderverb

   Synonyms:
   malign, defame, traduce, asperse, vilify, calumniate, backbite, scandalize, libel

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1. List of paraphrases for "slander":

   defamation, libel, calumny, defame, vilification, slur, malign, denigration, smear

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How to use slander in a sentence?

1. William Shakespeare:

   No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world.

2. Gustave Flaubert:

   Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

3. Ahmet Sahin:

   I don't mind if Erdogan uses Islam as a political propaganda tool. I actually appreciate that he brings it up. These are our values, we shouldn't forget them, lIES AND SLANDER.

4. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan:

   No one has the right to slander Turkey, especially the slander of Turkey buying ISIS oil, turkey has not lost its moral values to buy oil from a terror organization.

5. Confucius:

   He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.