If your classmate spreads a false rumor that you cheated on the math test, that's slander. Slander is the act of saying an untrue, negative statement about someone.
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.
Noun
an abusive attack on a person''s character or good name
Noun
words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another
Verb
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"
n.
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.
n.
Disgrace; reproach; dishonor; opprobrium.
n.
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.
v. t.
To defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false
report; to tarnish or impair the reputation of by false tales
maliciously told or propagated; to calumniate.
v. t.
To bring discredit or shame upon by one's acts.
Slander
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."
[We] make the careful magistrate The mark of slander.2.
Thou slander of thy mother's heavy womb.3.
Slander
O, do not slander him, for he is kind.2.
Tax not so bad a voice To slander music any more than once.
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.
To defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false report; to tarnish or impair the reputation of by false tales maliciously told or propagated; to calumniate.
Usage Examples
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
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Other Usage ExamplesSociety is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
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