Definitions for slander

slander slan·der

Spelling: [slan-der]
IPA: /ˈslæn dər/

Slander is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 292 anagrams from letters in slander (adelnrs).

Definitions for slander

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 slander

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 slander

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for slander
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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