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slander

Spoken defamatory statement; if written, or broadcast on radio or television, it constitutes libel.

A slander must involve making false statements and be shown to damage the person defamed.



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A SLANDER travelling rapidly through the land upon its joyous mission was accosted by a Retraction and commanded to halt and be killed.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
You see what an effect your heedless speech has had; you ought to have been more considerate than to blurt out such a cruel piece of slander as that.
Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context
And this circumstance, while it explains the true motives of Lady Susan's conduct, and removes all the blame which has been so lavished on her, may also convince us how little the general report of anyone ought to be credited; since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander.
Lady Susan by Austen, Jane View in context
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