slandering in English

verb

1

make false and damaging statements about (someone).

they were accused of slandering the head of state

synonyms: defame (someone's character), blacken someone's name, tell lies about, speak ill/evil of, sully someone's reputation, libel, smear, cast aspersions on, spread scandal about, besmirch, tarnish, taint, malign, traduce, vilify, disparage, denigrate, run down, slur, badmouth, dis, trash, derogate

verb

• defame (someone's character), blacken someone's name, tell lies about, speak ill/evil of, sully someone's reputation, libel, smear, cast aspersions on, spread scandal about, besmirch, tarnish, taint, malign, traduce, vilify, disparage, denigrate, run down, slur, badmouth, dis, trash, derogate
• smear, smirch, denigrate, calumniate, asperse, sully, defame, besmirch

Use "slandering" in a sentence

1. Accusing Leonella of slandering her mistress, he stabs her.

2. Well, imagine that a vicious enemy is slandering our beloved friend or family member.

3. 16 Among the habits which children should shun are slovenliness, rudeness, laziness, lying, stealing and slandering.

4. 5 The Israelites were commanded: “You must not go around among your people for the sake of slandering.”

5. He's a snake in the grass. While pretending to be your friend he was slandering you behind your back.

6. In a written order, Yeltsin charged his erstwhile buddy with slandering the president and his family and disclosing state secrets.

7. To attack the character or reputation of a person who is not present (Backbiting). Speaking false information or lies about a person who is not present (slandering)

8. This page shows answers to the clue Aspersion, followed by ten definitions like “The act of defaming”, “The act of slandering” and “The making of slanderous remarks

9. Vu was also accused of "producing documents that spread false and fabricated information, distorting the leadership and management of the state, causing confusion for the people, provoking, advocating for exhorting against the state and slandering and offending the honor of the leaders of the state."

10. Pizan and Crenne publicly challenge those who "ont le sexe muliebre contemne" (I vi: "have slandered the female sex," with the verb " Contemner," as we have seen, having the double meaning of slandering the reputation of and even sexually abusing women).