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slanderest

slanderest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of slander.

Meaning of slander

Verb

slander (third-person singular simple present slanders, present participle slandering, simple past and past participle slandered)

  1. (transitive) To utter a slanderous statement about; baselessly speak ill of; to wrong.
    • Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough?
      Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him.
      Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he...1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act III
    Synonyms:
    defame, libel
    Antonyms:
    glorify

See all 3 meanings of slander

Origin of slanderest

slander + -est

Questions about slanderest

What is slanderest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Slanderest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of slander.

Words near slanderest in the dictionary

  1. slandered
  2. slanderer
  3. slanderers
  4. slanderess
  5. slanderesses
  6. slanderest
  7. slandereth
  8. slandering
  9. slanderingly
  10. slanderings
  11. slanderous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slanderest (page history and authors); slander (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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