Word Meanings - SLANDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Formerly, defamation generally, whether oral or written; in modern usage, defamation by words spoken; utterance of false, malicious, and defamatory words, tending to the damage and derogation of another; calumny. See the Note under Defamation.

Additional info about word: SLANDER

Formerly, defamation generally, whether oral or written; in modern usage, defamation by words spoken; utterance of false, malicious, and defamatory words, tending to the damage and derogation of another; calumny. See the Note under Defamation. Burril. (more info) escandre, F. esclandre, fr. L. scandalum, Gr. skand to spring, leap. 1. A false tale or report maliciously uttered, tending to injure the reputation of another; the malicious utterance of defamatory reports; the dissemination of malicious tales or suggestions to the injury of another. Whether we speak evil of a man to his face or behind his back; the former way, indeed, seems to be the most generous, but yet is a great fault, and that which we call "reviling;" the latter is more mean and base, and that which we properly call "slander", or "Backbiting." Tillotson. make the careful magistrate The mark of slander. B. Jonson. 2. Disgrace; reproach; dishonor; opprobrium. Thou slander of thy mother's heavy womb. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SLANDER)

• Abuse
• Injure
• damage
• spoil
• maltreat
• treat-all
• ill-use
• ill-treat
• retile
• scandalize
• disparage
• reproach
• upbraid
• asperse
• malign
• slander
• vituperate
• prostitute
• defame
• pervert
• misuse
• misemploy
• vilify
• Asperse
• Slander
• calumniate
• bespatter
• befoul
• defy
• attack
• traduce
• detract from
• blacken
• tarnish
• backbite
• Blacken
• Bespatter
• bedaub
• decry
• dishonor
• Calumny
• defamation
• detraction
• libel
• traducement
• backbiting
• opprobrium
• aspersion
• Detraction
• Diminution
• deterioration
• depreciation
• derogation

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SLANDER)

• Laud
• praise
• approve
• commend

Related words: (words related to SLANDER)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• MALIGNITY
  1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. 2. Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward. 3. Extreme evilness of nature
• MALIGNANT
  Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule , a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of
• REPROACHER
  One who reproaches.
• TRADUCENT
  Slanderous. Entick.
• DEFAMER
  One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• OPPROBRIUM
  Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language. Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium. De Quincey.
• BLACKEN
  Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
• SLANDEROUS
  1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan"der*ous*ness, n.
• TRADUCEMENT
  The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. Shak.
• DETRACTIVE
  1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
• DISPARAGEMENT
  1. Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser. 2. Injurious comparison with an inferior; a
• ILL-USED
  Misapplied; treated badly.
• DETRACTIVENESS
  The quality of being detractive.
• DETRACTINGLY
  In a detracting manner.
• MALTREATMENT
  Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• INDAMAGED
  Not damaged. Milton.