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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another;

2. an abusive attack on a person's character or good name;
[syn: aspersion, calumny, slander, defamation, denigration]


VERB (1)

1. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone;
- Example: "The journalists have defamed me!"
- Example: "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
[syn: defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Slander \Slan"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slandered; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Slandering.]
   1. To defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false
      report; to tarnish or impair the reputation of by false
      tales maliciously told or propagated; to calumniate.
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            O, do not slander him, for he is kind. --Shak.
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   2. To bring discredit or shame upon by one's acts.
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            Tax not so bad a voice
            To slander music any more than once.  --Shak.
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   Syn: To asperse; defame; calumniate; vilify; malign; belie;
        scandalize; reproach. See Asperse.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Slander \Slan"der\, n. [OE. sclandere, OF. esclandre, esclandle,
   escandre, F. esclandre, fr. L. scandalum, Gr. ??? a snare,
   stumbling block, offense, scandal; probably originally, the
   spring of a trap, and akin to Skr. skand to spring, leap. See
   Scan, and cf. Scandal.]
   1. A false tale or report maliciously uttered, tending to
      injure the reputation of another; the malicious utterance
      of defamatory reports; the dissemination of malicious
      tales or suggestions to the injury of another.
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            Whether we speak evil of a man to his face or behind
            his back; the former way, indeed, seems to be the
            most generous, but yet is a great fault, and that
            which we call "reviling;" the latter is more mean
            and base, and that which we properly call "slander",
            or "Backbiting."                      --Tillotson.
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            [We] make the careful magistrate
            The mark of slander.                  --B. Jonson.
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   2. Disgrace; reproach; dishonor; opprobrium.
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            Thou slander of thy mother's heavy womb. --Shak.
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   3. (Law) Formerly, defamation generally, whether oral or
      written; in modern usage, defamation by words spoken;
      utterance of false, malicious, and defamatory words,
      tending to the damage and derogation of another; calumny.
      See the Note under Defamation. --Burril.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

56 Moby Thesaurus words for "slander":
   asperse, assail, attack, backbite, backbiting, backstabbing,
   barefaced lie, belie, belittlement, bitchiness, blackwash,
   calumniate, calumniation, calumny, cattiness,
   character assassination, consummate lie, damage, decry, defamation,
   defamation of character, defame, denigrate, depreciation, dirt,
   disparage, disparagement, gossip column, hurt, injure,
   juicy morsel, libel, malicious gossip, malign, misrepresentation,
   monstrous lie, muckrake, muckraking, obloquy, out-and-out lie,
   roorback, scandal, scandalmongering, slur, smear, strumpet, tale,
   tear down, the big lie, tidbit, traduce, traducement, vilification,
   vilify, whispering campaign, whopper