slander
pronunciation
How to pronounce slander in British English:
UK [ˈslɑːndə(r)]
How to pronounce slander in American English:
US [ˈslændər]
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- Noun:
- words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another
- an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
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- Verb:
- charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
Word Origin
- slander
- slander: [13] Slander and scandal are ultimately the same word. Both go back to Latin scandalum ‘cause of offence’. This passed into Old French as escandle, which in due course had its consonants switched round to produce esclandre, source of English slander. Scandal was borrowed from the later French form scandale.=> scandal
- slander (n.)
- late 13c., "state of impaired reputation, disgrace or dishonor;" c. 1300, "a false tale; the fabrication and dissemination of false tales," from Anglo-French esclaundre, Old French esclandre "scandalous statement," alteration ("with interloping l" [Century Dictionary]) of escandle, escandre "scandal," from Latin scandalum "cause of offense, stumbling block, temptation" (see scandal). From late 14c. as "bad situation, evil action; a person causing such a state of affairs."
- slander (v.)
- c. 1300, from Anglo-French esclaundrer, Old French esclandrer, from esclandre (see slander (n.)). Related: Slandered; slandering; slanderer.
Antonym
Example
- 1. Eg. no matter how they slander us , we will never give in .
- 2. Olam said it had initiated the action based on " libel , slander and malicious falsehood " .
- 3. We have rules about libel and slander , defamation , and speech that incites imminent violence .
- 4. Each blogger is capable of bias and slander , but , taken as a group , bloggers offer the searcher after truth boundless material to chew over .
- 5. If banon decides against pursuing this legal avenue , paris prosecutors would start looking into strauss-kahn 's slander complaint .