Antonyms for slander
ˈslæn dərslan·der

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1. slanderverb

   Synonyms:
   libel, defame

2. slanderverb

   to utter a slanderous statement

   Synonyms:
   defame, libel

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. slander

   To slander a person is to utter a false and injurious report concerning him; to defame is specifically and directly to attack one's reputation; to defame by spoken words is to slander, by written words, to libel. To asperse is, as it were, to bespatter with injurious charges; to malign is to circulate studied and malicious attacks upon character; to traduce is to exhibit one's real or assumed traits in an odious light; to revile or vilify is to attack with vile abuse. To disparage is to represent one's admitted good traits or acts as less praiseworthy than they would naturally be thought to be, as for instance, by ascribing a man's benevolence to a desire for popularity or display. To libel or slander is to make an assault upon character and repute that comes within the scope of law; the slander is uttered, the libel written, printed, or pictured. To backbite is to speak something secretly to one's injury; to calumniate is to invent as well as utter the injurious charge. One may "abuse," "assail," or vilify another to his face; he asperses, calumniates, slanders, or traduces him behind his back.

   Antonyms:
   defend, eulogize, extol, laud, praise, vindicate

   Synonyms:
   asperse, backbite, calumniate, decry, defame, depreciate, disparage, libel, malign, revile, traduce, vilify

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. slander

   Antonyms:
   praise, laud, honor, vindicate, defend, panegyrize, eulogize, shield, commend

   Synonyms:
   asperse, defame, calumniate, vilify, abuse, scandalize, traduce, belittle, blacken

Matched Categories

1. • Defamation
   • Speech Act

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. slandernoun

   words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another

   Synonyms:
   denigration, calumny, aspersion, defamation

2. aspersion, calumny, slander, defamation, denigrationverb

   an abusive attack on a person's character or good name

   Synonyms:
   hatchet job, calumniation, calumny, sprinkling, traducement, obloquy, defamation, belittling, deprecation, denigration, aspersion, slur

3. defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirchverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   besmirch, smudge, asperse, maculate, taint, smear, smutch, calumniate, tarnish, denigrate, minimize, blur, defile, sully, stain, daub, smirch, defame, corrupt, belittle, cloud, derogate

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1. slandernoun

   Synonyms:
   defamation, calumny, aspersion, libel, vilification, scandal, abuse, traducement, backbiting, roorback, vituperation

2. slanderverb

   Synonyms:
   malign, defame, traduce, asperse, vilify, calumniate, backbite, scandalize, libel

How to use slander in a sentence?

1. Ted Cruz:

   That pledge was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack [ my wife ], that I'm going to nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father.

2. Vanna Bonta:

   The only truth slander reveals is about the coward implementing it.

3. Socrates:

   When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

4. Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897):

   It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.

5. Lu Wei:

   Indeed, we do not welcome those that make money off China, occupy China's market, even as they slander China's people. These kinds of websites I definitely will not allow in my house.

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