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Meanings of slander in English
An abusive attack of a person's reputation by any slanderous communication.
Synonyms
Examples for "smear"
Examples for "smear"
1
Now Donald Trump and the far right are trying to smear him.
2
The blood of the pauper shall smear the couch of the indolent.
3
It is of course wrong not to smear the blame around evenly.
4
But in the case of his latest smear campaign, the reaction is.
5
All subjects completed TB treatment and were smear negative at treatment completion.
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China has since sought to sully her reputation and undermine her claims.
2
The judge publicly admonished Felder for his attempts to sully Minnelli's reputation.
3
It was forbidden to sully their royal bloodlines by producing mud children.
4
And Force would never sully his hands with that sort of behaviour.
5
Not even Communism can sully the Caribbean or dim the tropical sunshine.
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Far be it from me to depreciate physical symmetry and personal comeliness.
2
He too will be apt to depreciate their application to the arts.
3
They sometimes resort to deception to depreciate their value with the appraisers.
4
One class goes to depreciate Republican institutions, the other to praise them.
5
CLEINIAS: Once more, Stranger, I must complain that you depreciate our lawgivers.
1
For example, it's routine marketing practice for homeopaths to denigrate mainstream medicine.
2
It's a Chinese principle to contribute to, and not denigrate, potential markets.
3
None of that, of course, is to denigrate Eric and his ability.
4
By seeking to ban and re-route loyalist parades and denigrate our culture.
5
This is not to denigrate the former in favour of the latter.
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Nor is there any attempt here to defame or injure any section.
2
To have your letter intercepted, rival enemies are working to defame you.
3
They accused foreign forces in Afghanistan of orchestrating it to defame the Taliban.
4
We are outcasts from Deity; therefore we defame the place of our exile.
5
He seemed to like to defame men whom the people loved and honored.
1
In fact, she may rise out of her grave to calumniate me.
2
He would not calumniate those, he said, who counselled trust in God.
3
Bless them that curse you and pray for them that calumniate you.
4
You do more, under the pretext of unmasking yourself, you calumniate yourself.
5
Who shall praise or honour princes who insult and calumniate each other?
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It's a weapon that no self-respecting man should smirch his hands with.
2
For many of them it will smirch us forever.... You DO understand?
3
One could never detect a smirch or a grain of dust upon them.
4
A careless word or two shall easily suffice to smirch your fair fame.
5
He had never tried to embarrass him or smirch his name.
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Why besmirch with murder foul the noble shade of that renowned chief?
2
The whole Russia line was a ruse to besmirch Trump and help Clinton.
3
The letter which would besmirch my name, dishonour and disgrace it for ever!
4
The Long Summer will come again before that one would besmirch his precious honor.
5
After all, why besmirch someone who may yet be innocent?
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But is it possible to derogate from the necessary laws of existence?
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You cannot derogate from the value of reason without using reason.
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But by his marriage he might either support or derogate from these honours.
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A man with such a nature as yours should not derogate so far.
5
Nay, would it not rather seem to derogate from those attributes?
1
Herbal waters can also be used to asperse or anoint people or places.
2
You have presumed to asperse the good name of the Countess de Soissons.
3
Who would dare to asperse the character of this perfect, lovely, and intellectual schoolmistress?
4
And to think, mother, that they shall asperse his name!
5
As you asperse the area, you may wish to say something to the effect of:
Usage of slander in English
1
It is a slander upon their memory, at least, so I believe.
2
Subsequently, the play and film Amadeus gave mass circulation to the slander.
3
They hear the language of flattery, but not the tongue of slander.
4
Pepin mutters a residue of slander in tones that quiver with malice-
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Shortly after the interview was released, Danilkin described its contents as slander.
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He believes in me, and will cast all slander from his door.
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Her death at the age of twenty was possibly due to slander.
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Such a gross slander Mr. Scranton declares to be the most impious.
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You dare not slander your heart and say that it is dead.
10
Then, in justification of his unjustifiable conduct, he uses slander for argument.
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I think little of feelings that slander honest work and honest earnings.
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To see an empty one, foretells the absence of slander or competition.
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Society is sure to slander a woman of transcendent beauty and intellect.
14
I care not for your enmity but I will abide no slander.
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Now, all this is a vile slander upon the dear blind lady.
16
I felt that no amount of slander or disgrace would daunt you.
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common