SLANDER in a Sentence

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13 example sentences for SLANDER, such as:

1. The doctor is suing his partner for slander.
2. That just shows the meanness of this slander.
3. I have proven that you slander the gay community.
4. The article is a slander on ordinary working people.
5. Truth fears not the flames of slander and injustice.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLANDER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
slander
 n.  defamation; false and malicious statement or report about someone
Classic Sentence:
1  But with the operation of what came to be known as the governor's "slander mill," the North saw only a rebellious state that needed a heavy hand, and a heavy hand was laid upon it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
2  We decided that it did more harm than good because it just kept the Yankees stirred up and furnished more grist for the slander mill of his excellency, Governor Bullock.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
3  That just shows the meanness of this slander.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 78. We hear From Yanina.
4  And he related how a peasant had stolen some flour from the miller, and when the miller told him of it, had lodged a complaint for slander.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 30
5  As for the officer's widow to whom they say I gave a beating, she's in business now, and it's a slander, it's a slander that I beat her.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
6  Just recall to your mind what these malicious creatures wrote in the papers about papa, and how horribly they slandered him.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
7  Elsewhere in this volume the slanderous aspersion has been disproved, that the vocation of whaling is throughout a slatternly, untidy business.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 92. Ambergris.
8  Mr. Duke, before leaving Montgomery, signed a card disclaiming any intention of slandering Southern white women.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In II
9  Well, there's no preventing slanderers from having their fill at any time; but you need not be afraid.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
Example Sentence:
1  The article is a slander on ordinary working people.
2  Truth fears not the flames of slander and injustice.
3  The doctor is suing his partner for slander.
4  I have proven that you slander the gay community.