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

"And herein I apprehend myself now to suffer wrongfully, being slanderously reported, falsely accused, shamefully and despitefully used, and hated without a cause."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

A day or two later I received a request, pitched in an almost slanderously sceptical tone, for more detailed information.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-14 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

This, too, was slanderously repeated, after my open appeal to the Court against such malignity; and this the learned Attorney-General calls availing himself of his privilege of reply!

From The Trial of Henry Hetherington by Hetherington, Henry

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 Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)