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How to use slander in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun, verb

Slander means a false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement. Example: “Slander is an injury to the character.”

More sentences with slander

  • Slander is an injury to the character.From the entry injury
  • Their slander has set my family against me.From the entry set against
  • Slander may be conveyed by insinuations.From the entry insinuation
  • Slander is a double-edged weapon: you can hurt the reputation of another but it diminishes your own reputation that you debase yourself so much.From the entry double-edged
  • He may be insulting, a miserable rotter and a fool, but unless he slanders or libels you, or damages your property, you do not have standing to sue him.From the entry standing
  • Instead, she regularly slanders women and proposes prohibitive and censorial legislation.1986 February 8, K.L. Ratliff, “Exit, Stage Right”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 29, page 5. From the entry censorial
  • He (Lee Kuan Yew) and his associates jailed opponents or pauperized them through civil court cases alleging slander or other misdemeanors.2015 March 30, “Lee Kuan Yew’s Enigma: Authoritarian Yet a Kind of Democrat”, in CSIS. From the entry pauperize
  • Hughes CRAVED slander skank to share with Mr.2011, James Ellroy, American Tabloid, page 21. From the entry skank
  • The relevant Qur’anic verse (Ayât) is very similar to the English law on slander per se and the imputation of inchastity for women.2008, Eleanor Cashin-Ritaine, Laetitia Franck, Shaheeza Lalani, editors, Legal Engineering and Comparative Law/L’ingénierie juridique et…. From the entry inchastity
  • In the front page article "GAA Responds to Resigned Members" there are contained so many lies and slanders that I must respond.1979 December 8, R. Paul Martin, “Curiouser And Curiouser”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 20, page 5. From the entry co-opter
  • The unsubstantiate slanders made by Teng Hsiao-p'ing can only expose his rapacious design of trying to reverse verdicts, settle accounts and carry out restoration.1976, Survey of People's Republic of China Press. From the entry unsubstantiate
  • Like other scholars of the period, Su Shih opposed these innovations and suffered slander and demotion during the years when Wang An-shih was in power.1966, Liu Wu-chi, An Introduction to Chinese Literature, Indiana University Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 108. From the entry Huang-chou
  • Renounce slander and envy of others.1963, M. Arthur Macauliffe, The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, page 7. From the entry falsehood
  • To boast mendaciously about one’s own gang and to slander and defame other gangs are acts everywhere officially regarded as creditable and even pious.1934, Aldous Huxley, “Guatemala City”, in Beyond the Mexique Bay, London: Chatto & Windus, pages 95–96. From the entry improving
  • “He accused us of slandering him, presumably by implying he was a hipster, and of using the pic without his permission,” Gideon Lichfield, the Review’s editor-in-chief, explained Tuesday on Twitter.2019 March 8, Elyse Wanshel, “He Was Mad His Photo Was Used To Show All Hipsters Look Alike, But It Wasn't Him”, in HuffPost, archived…. From the entry Gideon
  • Cicero’s preoccupation with the slander spread by the two Quinti about him at a dangerous time would in any case have led him to focus less on everyday family ructions.1988, Suzanne Dixon, “The Roman Mother and the Adolescent or Adult Son”, in The Roman Mother, Beckenham, Greater London; Sydney, N.S.W.…. From the entry quintus

Meaning of slander

  1. noun A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.
  2. noun Vehement (and often exaggerated) criticism of a character, franchise, etc.
  3. verb To utter a slanderous statement about; baselessly speak ill of; to wrong.

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Questions about slander in a sentence

How do you use slander in a sentence?
Slander is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Slander is an injury to the character.”
What is a short sentence with slander?
“Renounce slander and envy of others.”
What does slander mean?
Slander means a false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.

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