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Slanderer

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slan·der  (slndr)
n.
1. Law Oral communication of false statements injurious to a person's reputation.
2. A false and malicious statement or report about someone.
v. slan·dered, slan·der·ing, slan·ders
v.tr.
To utter a slander about. See Synonyms at malign.
v.intr.
To utter or spread slander.
[Middle English slaundre, from Old French esclandre, alteration of escandle, from Latin scandalum, cause of offense, stumbling block; see scandal.]
slander·er n.
slander·ous adj.
slander·ous·ly adv.
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Noun1.Slandererslanderer - one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel
backbiter, defamer, libeler, maligner, traducer, vilifier
depreciator, detractor, disparager, knocker - one who disparages or belittles the worth of something
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If a person who prys into the characters of others, with no other design but to discover their faults, and to publish them to the world, deserves the title of a slanderer of the reputations of men, why should not a critic, who reads with the same malevolent view, be as properly stiled the slanderer of the reputation of books?
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
But you surely don't expect me to go around shooting every slanderer in the Solomons that opens his mouth?
Adventure by London, Jack View in context
715-716) Do not get a name either as lavish or as churlish; as a friend of rogues or as a slanderer of good men.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
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