Definitions for slanders

slanders slan·der

Spelling: [slan-der]
IPA: /ˈslæn dər/

Slanders is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 341 anagrams from letters in slanders (adelnrss).

Definitions for slanders

noun

  1. defamation; calumny:
  2. a malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report:
  3. Law. defamation by oral utterance rather than by writing, pictures, etc.

verb (used with object)

  1. to utter slander against; defame.

verb (used without object)

  1. to utter or circulate slander.

Origin of slanders

1250-1300; (noun) Middle English s(c)laundre Anglo-French esclaundre, Old French esclandre, alteration of escandle Late Latin scandalum cause of offense, snare (see sc

Examples for slanders

We should not so slander the author of the Shakespearean plays.

Obviously, a federal judge so inclined could very easily find that the offensive name constitutes fighting words or slander.

I shall be good friends with her, when you are no longer here to slander me to her.

Life is too brief to spend much thought on taunts or slander.

It was a slander, they could not, they would not believe it.

He tould me your honour—which is a slander, as we all here can witness, can't we?

Martyrdom, in this context, being defined as “mockery, slander, ostracism.”

Alinejad spoke with IranWire about the slander and how she plans to fight it.

Anonymous did not invent the spread of slander posing as news.

But none of this stops Kennedy from trafficking in slander and nonsense.

Word Value for slanders
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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