Slander /(?)/

1. A false tale or report maliciously uttered, tending to injure the reputation of another; the malicious utterance of defamatory reports; the dissemination of malicious tales or suggestions to the injury of another.

   Whether we speak evil of a man to his face or behind his back; the former way, indeed, seems to be the most generous, but yet is a great fault, and that which we call “reviling;” the latter is more mean and base, and that which we properly call “slander”, or “Backbiting.”

   [We] make the careful magistrate The mark of slander.

2. Disgrace; reproach; dishonor; opprobrium.

   Thou slander of thy mother's heavy womb.

3. Formerly, defamation generally, whether oral or written; in modern usage, defamation by words spoken; utterance of false, malicious, and defamatory words, tending to the damage and derogation of another; calumny. See the Note under Defamation. (Law)

imp. & p. p. Slandered; p. pr. & vb. n. Slandering

1. To defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false report; to tarnish or impair the reputation of by false tales maliciously told or propagated; to calumniate.

   O, do not slander him, for he is kind.

2. To bring discredit or shame upon by one's acts.

   Tax not so bad a voice To slander music any more than once.