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Definition of Slanderer
1. Noun. One who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel.
Generic synonyms: Depreciator, Detractor, Disparager, Knocker
Derivative terms: Backbite, Defame, Libel, Malign, Slander, Traduce, Vilify
Definition of Slanderer
1. n. One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator.
Definition of Slanderer
1. Noun. One who slanders or defames the name or reputation of another person. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slanderer
1. one that slanders [n -S] - See also: slanders
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slanderer
Literary usage of Slanderer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slander and Defamation of Character: The Great Crimes of the Nineteenth Century by Thomas D Worrall (1884)
"The Romans had their "anguis in herba," and no phrase in the English language is
more frequently used to designate the slanderer than "A snake in the grass. ..."
2. The Life of Jesus: According to His Original Biographers by James Roberts Gilmore (1867)
"Is a Slanderer. —This is the common signification of the word in the original.
It was used by the Jews, with the article prefixed, for Satan : but here the ..."
3. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1855)
"THE HINTING Slanderer.—The individual who goes about giving mysterious hints,
and darkly insinuating that there is something horrible in the character of ..."
4. Hebraic Literature: Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Maurice Henry Harris (1901)
"The serpent will reply (Eccl. viii. n), "I am no worse than a slanderer." Taanith,
fol. 8, col. 1. Adonijah was deprived of life for no other reason thau ..."
5. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively and by Robert Christy (1887)
"There is no cure against a slanderer's bite. Dan. 34. There is no sufficient
recompense for an unjust slander. 35. They that slander the dead are like ..."
6. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England by John Campbell Campbell, Joseph Arnould (1881)
"Another passage which especially commended itself to the popular sentiment was
the famous apostrophe " Come forth, thou slanderer," addressed to the Duke of ..."
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