| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| slander |
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| SYLLABICATION: | slan·der |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  sl n d r |
| NOUN: | 1. Law Oral communication of false statements injurious to a person's reputation. 2. A false and malicious statement or report about someone. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: slan·dered, slan·der·ing, slan·ders
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To utter a slander about. See synonyms at malign. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To utter or spread slander. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English slaundre, from Old French esclandre, alteration of escandle, from Latin scandalum, cause of offense, stumbling block. See scandal. | | OTHER FORMS: | slander·er —NOUN
slander·ous —ADJECTIVE
slander·ous·ly —ADVERB
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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