slander

• slandre (obsolete)

From Middle English slaundre, sclaundre, from Old French esclandre, from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“stumbling block, temptation”), from Ancient Greek σκάνδαλον (skándalon, “scandal”). Doublet of scandal.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈslɑːndə/, (obsolete) /ˈslandə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈslændɚ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈslaːndə/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈslaːndə/, /ˈslɛndə/
• Rhymes: -ændə(ɹ), -ɑːndə

slander (countable and uncountable, plural slanders)

1. 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.

• See also Thesaurus:slander

• glorification (falsely praising statement)

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

1. To utter a slanderous statement about; baselessly speak ill of.
   • 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act III:

     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 haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: […]

• defame
• libel (always in writing)
• See also Thesaurus:defame

• glorify (baselessly speak well of)

• defamation

• Landers, Lenards, Nadlers, Randles, Sandler, darnels, enlards, landers, relands, slandre, snarled