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Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak.

Slanderous. [Obs.]

Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous. -- As*pers"ive*ly, adv.

rk by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce. Truth shall retire Bestuck with slanderous darts. Milton.

Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.

Containing calumny; slanderous. Montagu.

Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports. Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes. Shak.

Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.

Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.

e or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse.

nto, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a text. Done to death by slanderous tongues. Shak. The ground of the difficulty is done away. Paley. Suspicions regarding his loyalty were entirely done away. Thackeray. To do on our own harness, that we may not; but we must do on the armor of God. Latime…

Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language. Shak.

Speaking reproachfully; slanderous. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

ther from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.

Slanderous. [R.] Entick.

In a traducing manner; by traduction; slanderously.