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Example sentences for "slander"

Lexicographically close words:
slaking; slam; slammed; slamming; slams; slandered; slanderer; slanderers; slandering; slanderous
  1. Immediate punishment would injure the credit of Lord Grey, and would give occasion for slander against the council.

  2. I did not mean to slander Rudin; but--who knows!

  3. Mind, I don't want to slander her, I even like her as far as one can like a woman.

  4. She has calumniated her countrymen, and the slander has gone with electric speed on the pinions of the press, to the ends of the earth.

  5. Why make you bold then to slander it, when you can give no sure ground for that you say?

  6. It's a slander to mention that man's name in connection with her,--a calumny which I will not endure.

  7. To stop all cabal, and put an end to all slander and suspicion, H.

  8. Being fond of convivial company, his income was insufficient for the craving demand, and as soon as he found that anecdote and slander always procured readers, he never ceased writing.

  9. Let us not slander our intelligence to that degree.

  10. 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.

  11. For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

  12. Now Wagner responds quite as well as Schopenhauer to the twofold cravings of these people,--they both deny life, they both slander it but precisely on this account they are my antipodes.

  13. A partial slander sought I to avoid, And in the sentence my own life destroy'd.

  14. O, let my sovereign turn away his face And bid his ears a little while be deaf, Till I have told this slander of his blood How God and good men hate so foul a liar.

  15. Exton, I thank thee not; for thou hast wrought A deed of slander with thy fatal hand Upon my head and all this famous land.

  16. Yudhishthira answered, 'The study of the Vedas constitutes their divinity: their asceticism constitutes behaviour that is like that of the pious; their liability to death is their human attribute and slander is their impiety.

  17. Slander not God, who is the lord of all creatures.

  18. Let us pretend that she is dead until the truth is declared, and slander turns to remorse.

  19. If the Story be not made upon him, (for we should not slander the Devil) it should seem, he was not thoroughly satisfied in King Charles IX.

  20. The slander was profitable also to the Spanish Cæsar, for it took away from his path a powerful family opposed to the Aragonese power in Italy.

  21. The slander was refuted at the time by Bishop Della Casa in the time of Vergerio, and later by Ammiani, Poggiali, Morandi, Cardinal Quirino and Apostolo Zeno, not to mention many others.

  22. Slander generally takes refuge behind such platitude as, 'Of course, I have not seen it; I only repeat what I have heard.

  23. His smiles are more compromising than bona fide slander and calumny.

  24. It is a slander of the basest class, not backed up by a single credible fact, wholly dishonorable to the author, and discredits his entire history.

  25. The tongue of slander was freely wagged against him, and his declining years were made miserable by unthinking Americans and revengeful Englishmen.

  26. P: And if a slander from the devil wound thee, then seek refuge in Allah.

  27. P: Those who disbelieve say: This is naught but a lie that he hath invented, and other folk have helped him with it, so that they have produced a slander and a lie.

  28. Y: But if ye decide to take one wife in place of another, even if ye had given the latter a whole treasure for dower, Take not the least bit of it back: Would ye take it by slander and manifest wrong?

  29. P: And those who malign believing men and believing women undeservedly, they bear the guilt of slander and manifest sin.

  30. The Prerogative of Might A Slander travelling rapidly through the land upon its joyous mission was accosted by a Retraction and commanded to halt and be killed.

  31. How then," the Slander asked, triumphantly, "have you overtaken me?

  32. She died, my lord, but whiles her slander liv'd.

  33. O, good my lord, tax not so bad a voice To slander music any more than once.

  34. Marry, this well carried shall on her behalf Change slander to remorse.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slander" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abuse; asperse; aspersion; backbiting; bespatter; black; blacken; calumny; defamation; defame; depreciation; detraction; dirt; discredit; dishonor; disparage; disparagement; impeach; insult; libel; malign; revile; scandal; scandalize; slander; slur; smear; stigmatize; sycophancy; tale; tarnish; tidbit; vilify