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Meanings of slanderous in English
(Used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign.
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Usage of slanderous in English
1
Now they fabricated and circulated all manner of slanderous reports respecting me.
2
Insolent, scurrilous, or slanderous language, when it precedes an assault, aggravates it.
3
But it would be money well spent; it would silence the slanderous tongue.
4
Nevertheless, slanderous campaigns continued to be mounted by factions determined to unseat him.
5
The slanderous letter had not shaken her faith in him, yet.
6
The spirit that I am of tramples such slanderous wickedness under my feet.
7
The complaint of a five-year-old made under strain could hardly be considered slanderous.
8
Loudwater is not the place for ungrateful and slanderous rogues, said Mr. Manley.
9
No words could be more vile and slanderous than those of Mr. Southey.
10
If you have a slanderous Valley nickname, Coiler probably gave it to you.
11
His history was rather a satire, containing learned and slanderous observations mingled together.
12
These were her ends and aims, despite all that slanderous tongues might invent.
13
I am tired, too,-tiredof all these rumors and slanderous insinuations.
14
What sort of a tale was this to stop slanderous tongues?
15
The regime later accused foreign media of issuing slanderous reports.
16
At moments of crisis Cesar always slid into his vicious viper mode, aggressively slanderous.
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