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• n  words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another
• n  an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
• v  charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone

• Bedford said that the book made insinuations about his character that amounted to slander and he was not going to take it lying down.
• The complaint charged them with slander in their coverage in May of Dissident Zviad Gamsakhurdia's purported confession of anti-Soviet activities, even though their dispatches .
• Are radio's scandalmongers committing libel when they broadcast defamatory remarks from a scriptor is it just slander? Until last week this was a wide-open legal question.

• aspersion
• calumny
• defamation
• denigration
• defame
• smirch
• asperse
• denigrate
• calumniate
• smear
• sully
• besmirch

News & Articles

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• Stockton’s Mayor Breaks Silence over Sexual Misconduct Allegations
  STOCKTON— Mayor Anthony Silva says the allegations about an incident between him and a 19-year-old woman aren’t true. “There’s no place for slander. People think because you run for office, you stick out your neck, that it’s okay. But it’s …
  June 12, 2013 - FOX40 Sacramento

Quotes

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• Nicolas Sarkozy in Politically Illustrated (blog)
  I would love it so much if the country could excite itself over the big problems ...... rather than to get wrapped up in the first horror, a slander with only one goal, to smear with no basis in reality,said Mr. Sarkozy, responding to what...
• Francois Fillon in Vancouver Sun
  This is slander, this is a systematic destabilization campaign,Prime Minister Francois Fillon said. "We will not be intimidated by these methods and I want to say that those who are involved in this manhunt, or slanderous accusations,...
• Nino Burjanadze in Bangkok Post
  Every word about me was malicious slander and I will sue both Imedi television and the authorities,said Burjanadze, who heads the Democratic Movement-United Georgia party.