Example Sentences

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Across the Atlantic it's the opposite: the burden of proof rests with the alleged slanderer, who has to prove what they said is true.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2022

"A thief can give back the thing he stole, a slanderer can acknowledge his calumny," Dolz thinks to herself.

From The Guardian • Mar. 1, 2013

Only during the final minutes, when Berlusconi denounced Marco Travaglio, an editorialist who also appears on the program, for being a "professional slanderer", were there sparks - when Santoro got angry.

From Reuters • Jan. 10, 2013

He read off her horse-kick comment, argued that it showed he was right all along about the "emotional instability on the part of this slanderer."

From Time Magazine Archive

The "National Gazette" was at an end, and the slanderer Freneau gone.

From The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)