slander
noun
slanderously
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a word derived from
slander.
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a word derived from
slanderous.
slanderousadjectiverelating to or being a false, malicious, and defamatory statement or report.
Example Sentences
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The user suggested that Mr. Li had slanderously compared soldiers to wild dogs.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2023
Of course their absence was slanderously connected, but there was no known ground for it.
From The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies
Celsus, unable to resist the miracles which Jesus is recorded to have performed, had on several occasions spoken of them slanderously as works of sorcery, to which Origen had severally replied.
From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
When something like this opinion was slanderously attributed to Paul, observe the almost ostentatious practical contradiction of the calumny which was adopted by him at the request and by the advice of the other Apostles.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
And does he think I shall slanderously brook such a slanderous indignity—No!
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway
