Slanders Synonyms and Antonyms

An abusive attack on a person's character or good name
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. calumnies
  2. scandals
  3. defamations
  4. abuses
  5. aspersions
  6. vituperations
Antonyms:
  1. praises
  2. niceties
  3. acclamations
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To utter a slander about.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. maligns

Words Related to Slanders

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Slanders Sentence Examples

  • The Viscount Stafford was one of the "five Popish lords" committed to the Tower in 1678 as a result of the slanders of Titus Oates and he died by the axe in 1680 upon testimony which, as the diarist Evelyn protested, "should not be taken against the life of a dog."

  • The Jew remained, as always, stubbornly unconvinced, and, as often, fond of slanders.

  • Its statements earned Sanders the nickname of Dr Slanders in England; but a considerable number of the " slanders " have been confirmed by corroborative evidence, and others, e.g.

  • The work, he says, is the "production of a decided partisan," who "rakes in the ashes of long-forgotten and a thousand times buried slanders, 1 Lord Brougham, overlooking the constitutional chapter in the Middle Ages, censured Hallam for making an arbitrary beginning at this point, and proposed to write a more complete history himself.

  • In his last words on the scaffold he alludes to the dangers and slanders he had endured labouring to keep an uniformity in the external service of God; and Bacon's conception of a spiritual union founded on variety and liberty was one completely beyond his comprehension.

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