Another word for slander
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Noun
The expression of injurious, malicious statements about someone
- The legally indefensible publication or broadcast of words or images that are degrading to a person or injurious to his or her reputation.
- An incidence of such publication or broadcast.
- The written claims initiating a suit in an admiralty court.
- slanderous or malicious defamation; character assassination
- A publicized incident that brings about disgrace or offends the moral sensibilities of society:
- A person, thing, or circumstance that causes or ought to cause disgrace or outrage:
- Damage to reputation or character caused by public disclosure of immoral or grossly improper behavior; disgrace.
- The act of detracting or taking away.
- A derogatory or damaging comment on a person's character or reputation; disparagement:
- The act of making black; a blackening or defamation
- An unfair criticism
- The act of defaming; calumny, slander, or libel.
- The malicious denunciation or slandering of another person, especially as part of an effort to ruin the reputation of a public figure.
- A false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation.
- The utterance of maliciously false statements; slander.
- A false accusation, or a malicious statement, about someone.
- A false or damaging accusation or insinuation:
- The act of slandering or libeling; defaming.
- A sprinkling, especially with holy water.
Verb
To make defamatory statements about
- The legally indefensible publication or broadcast of words or images that are degrading to a person or injurious to his or her reputation.
- An incidence of such publication or broadcast.
- The written claims initiating a suit in an admiralty court.
- To attack the reputation of (a person or thing) with strong or abusive criticism.
- To make false or malicious statements about (someone) in order to cause humiliation or disgrace.
- To fail to uphold; disregard or violate:
- In communications, to free up a circuit that has been established for a particular session. When the session is completed, the circuit is "torn down" and the components and services involved are available for use by someone else.
- To pronounce indistinctly.
- To talk about disparagingly or insultingly.
- To pass over lightly or carelessly; treat without due consideration.
- To make evil, harmful, and often untrue statements about (someone).
- Evil or harmful in nature or effect:
- Intending or threatening harm or ill will; malevolent:
- To damage the reputation, character, or good name of (someone) by slander or libel.
- To disgrace.
- To make maliciously or knowingly false statements about.
- To speak spitefully or slanderously about (another).
- To speak spitefully or slanderously about a person.
- To spread false or damaging accusations or insinuations against (someone).
- To slander or libel; defame.
- To sprinkle, especially with holy water.
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Another word for slander
Noun
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- The legally indefensible publication or broadcast of words or images that are degrading to a person or injurious to his or her reputation.
- An incidence of such publication or broadcast.
- The written claims initiating a suit in an admiralty court.
- A publicized incident that brings about disgrace or offends the moral sensibilities of society:
- A person, thing, or circumstance that causes or ought to cause disgrace or outrage:
- Damage to reputation or character caused by public disclosure of immoral or grossly improper behavior; disgrace.
- A false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation.
- The utterance of maliciously false statements; slander.
- The act of defaming; calumny, slander, or libel.
See also:
Verb
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- To bring from concealment; disclose.
- A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with fiber added, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings.
- Plaster of Paris.
- A pastelike mixture applied to a part of the body for healing or cosmetic purposes.
- To state untruthfully; misrepresent.
- To make false by altering or adding to:
- To counterfeit; forge:
- To make evil, harmful, and often untrue statements about (someone).
- Evil or harmful in nature or effect:
- Intending or threatening harm or ill will; malevolent:
- To make black.
- To sully or defame:
- To coat (fish or meat, for example) with pepper and other spices and then quickly sear in a very hot skillet, thereby producing meat that is black on the outside but tender on the inside.
- To take away; detract:
- To deviate from a standard or expectation; go astray:
- To disparage; belittle.
- To speak spitefully or slanderously about (another).
- To speak spitefully or slanderously about a person.
- To represent or speak of as unimportant or contemptible:
- To cause to seem little or smaller than something else:
- To offend the moral sensibilities of:
- To dishonor; disgrace.
- A spot or a stain caused by a discoloring substance:
- An association of disgrace with one's character or reputation.
- The Northern, Southern, or Western blot analyses.
- To soil, stain, or dirty with or as if with a smearing agent:
- To dishonor; defame.
- Something, such as a blot, smear, or stain, that smirches.
- To attack the character or reputation of; speak ill of; defame:
- To disparage; belittle:
- To stain; sully:
- To make dirty; soil.
- To dull the luster of; discolor, especially by exposure to air or dirt:
- To detract from or spoil:
- To bring disgrace to; sully:
- To mar the cleanness or luster of; soil or stain.
- To defile; taint:
- Something that stains or spots.
- To set upon with violent force.
- To criticize strongly or in a hostile manner.
- To start work on with purpose and vigor:
- An appeal or prayer for evil or misfortune to befall someone or something.
- Evil or misfortune that comes as if in response to such an appeal:
- A source or cause of evil; a scourge:
- To speak of (God or a sacred entity) in an irreverent, impious manner.
- To revile; execrate.
- To speak blasphemy.
- Loss of honor, respect, or reputation.
- The condition of having lost honor or good repute.
- A cause of loss of honor:
- To assail with scornful or abusive language; vituperate.
- To use scornful or abusive language.
- To speak of in a slighting or disrespectful way.
- To reduce in esteem or rank.
- To lessen the price or value of:
- To write off an expenditure for (a tangible asset) by prorating over a certain period, usually the estimated useful life of the asset.
- To think or speak of as being of little worth; belittle.
- To draw or take away; divert:
- To reduce the value, importance, or quality of something. Often used with from :
- To make filthy or dirty; pollute:
- To debase the pureness or excellence of; corrupt:
- To profane or sully (a reputation, for example).
- The legally indefensible publication or broadcast of words or images that are degrading to a person or injurious to his or her reputation.
- An incidence of such publication or broadcast.
- The written claims initiating a suit in an admiralty court.
- To make false or malicious statements about (someone) in order to cause humiliation or disgrace.
- To fail to uphold; disregard or violate:
- To condemn as wrong or reprehensible:
- To express disapproval of (a person); denounce:
- To depreciate (currency, for example) by official proclamation or by rumor.
- To spread false or damaging accusations or insinuations against (someone).
- To slander or libel; defame.
- To sprinkle, especially with holy water.
- To make maliciously or knowingly false statements about.
- To damage the reputation, character, or good name of (someone) by slander or libel.
- To disgrace.
- To attack the reputation of (a person or thing) with strong or abusive criticism.
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