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slanderer
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Word definitions for slanderer in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. One who slanders or defames the name or reputation of another person.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel [syn: defamer , maligner , vilifier , libeler , backbiter , traducer ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slanderer \Slan"der*er\, n. One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator. --Jer. Taylor.
Usage examples of slanderer.
Slanderers or impostors had persuaded this young coxcomb that Casimir, the King of Poland, whilst dwelling in Paris in the quality of a simple gentleman, had shown himself most assiduous to Madame Brisacier, and that he, Brisacier of France, was born of these assiduities of the Polish prince.
There the Slanderers, Backbiters, and other envious cowards are tormented in a deep and dark dungeon.
Slanderer, the Busybody, and the Lawmonger, have broken out of their prisons and got free.
The Huntress, the Swaggerer, the Rogue, on the one hand, and on the other, the Slanderer, the Lawmonger and the Busybody - a mixture would make devils reach.
If a person who prys into the characters of others, with no other design but to discover their faults, and to publish them to the world, deserves the title of a slanderer of the reputations of men, why should not a critic, who reads with the same malevolent view, be as properly stiled the slanderer of the reputation of books?
Again, though there may be some faults justly assigned in the work, yet, if those are not in the most essential parts, or if they are compensated by greater beauties, it will savour rather of the malice of a slanderer than of the judgment of a true critic to pass a severe sentence upon the whole, merely on account of some vicious part.
The writer said that the slanderers had got the ears of the king, and that I was no longer a persona grata at Court, as he had been assured that the Parisians had burnt me in effigy for my absconding with the lottery money, and that I had been a strolling player in Italy and little better than a vagabond.
He was a scoundrel and a slanderer, and writhed under the thought that he could not go to Naples and torment his relations, who were in reality respectable people, but monsters according to his shewing.
The Greek word for devil, diabolos, means slanderer or malignant accuser.
Were there always liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weaklings, deceivers, cowards, enviers, gluttons, drunkards, misers, sycophants, butchers, slanderers, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites and fools?
If a person who prys into the characters of others, with no other design but to discover their faults, and to publish them to the world, deserves the title of a slanderer of the reputations of men, why should not a critic, who reads with the same malevolent view, be as properly styled the slanderer of the reputation of books?