adjective

• (of a spoken statement) false and malicious.

  ‘slanderous allegations’

  More example sentences

  • ‘I'm not going to miss the mud-slinging, slanderous, nasty ads on the radio.’
  • ‘Posting of slanderous, libelous, abusive or defamatory material is totally prohibited.’
  • ‘Prudie only mentions this because to repeat such an accusation, should it be untrue, would be slanderous.’
  • ‘He began to make slanderous attacks and false accusations against those who questioned his stories.’
  • ‘Publicly telling someone that they did not belong in a neighborhood could be a very slanderous insult.’

  Synonyms

  defamatory, denigratory, disparaging, derogatory, libellous, pejorative, false, untrue, lying, misrepresentative, damaging, injurious, scurrilous, scandalous, poisonous, vicious, opprobrious, malicious, abusive, insulting

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