slander : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: slander	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for slander
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
slander n words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another an abusive attack on a person's character or good name Synonym(s): aspersion, calumny, slander, defamation, denigration v charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation" Synonym(s): defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Slander \Slan"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Slandered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slandering}.] 1. To defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false report; to tarnish or impair the reputation of by false tales maliciously told or propagated; to calumniate. O, do not slander him, for he is kind. --Shak. 2. To bring discredit or shame upon by one's acts. Tax not so bad a voice To slander music any more than once. --Shak. Syn: To asperse; defame; calumniate; vilify; malign; belie; scandalize; reproach. See {Asperse}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Slander \Slan"der\, n. [OE. sclandere, OF. esclandre, esclandle, escandre, F. esclandre, fr. L. scandalum, Gr. [?][?][?] a snare, stumbling block, offense, scandal; probably originally, the spring of a trap, and akin to Skr. skand to spring, leap. See {Scan}, and cf. {Scandal}.] 1. A false tale or report maliciously uttered, tending to injure the reputation of another; the malicious utterance of defamatory reports; the dissemination of malicious tales or suggestions to the injury of another. Whether we speak evil of a man to his face or behind his back; the former way, indeed, seems to be the most generous, but yet is a great fault, and that which we call [bd]reviling;[b8] the latter is more mean and base, and that which we properly call [bd]slander[b8], or [bd]Backbiting.[b8] --Tillotson. [We] make the careful magistrate The mark of slander. --B. Jonson.