How to Use slander in a Sentence

slander

1 of 2 verb

• She was accused of slandering her former boss.
• To call a place a hell is to slander its users as demons and sinners.
  — Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
• The plan gets a little fuzzy at that last point, but the first two steps are clear: slander and sue.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2020
• Reddit can slander my name but when the truth comes out…..
  — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 19 July 2022
• The media has been in training—and often paid—to slime me and to slander me for years.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 Feb. 2018
• But Kalb wasn’t the only cheftestant to slander queso’s good name.
  — Lauren McDowell, Chron, 10 Mar. 2022
• The kind that makes other victims not want to speak out over fears of their character or their work will be slandered.
  — Michael Arceneaux, Glamour, 27 Aug. 2018
• Detained for 7 years without charge by while my children grew up and my name was slandered.
  — CBS News, 19 May 2017
• Myeshia Johnson, who has now too been slandered by the president, would surely rather be left alone.
  — vanityfair.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• And for most of that time Americans have subjected the birds to slander, torture, and mass slaughter.
  — Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2022
• No one should slander the brave men & women who carried out this crucial program.
  — Jessica Estepa, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2018
• And not to be slandered, one of the hotels confirmed with a Kickstarter backer that the rooms that had been booked through the Kickstarter rewards program had been canceled.
  — Clarkisha Kent, The Root, 24 Apr. 2018
• And suddenly they would be held to higher standards--such as libel and slander laws.
  — Arkansas Online, 6 Dec. 2020
• Morgan & Morgan may deserve to be fired, but that is no reason to slander trial lawyers.
  — WSJ, 27 Mar. 2023
• These left wing loons crucified and slandered him over words that offended them.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 11 Apr. 2018
• At the time, the actor dismissed the claims as an attempt to slander Scientology.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• The Chainsmokers and Miranda Lambert need to stop slandering the selfie’s name.
  — Vulture, 18 July 2023
• And, look, the lawsuit against Christopher Steele is very important, because Christopher Steele slandered a lot of people in that dossier.
  — Fox News, 16 Mar. 2018
• Badasch regarded herself as a Trump loyalist, and felt that she had been slandered.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
• Reagan in the campaign and during his first few months as president was slandered as a pleasant dunce as often as Trump is smeared as a mean dunce.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 24 Oct. 2017
• This was a reckless attempt to slander our family and smear a great company.
  — CBS News, 29 Aug. 2019
• Sadly, my colleague @SenatorRomney wants to appease the left by calling witnesses who will slander the @realDonaldTrump during their 15 minutes of fame.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2020
• Less than one day after the story was published, the regime used it to attack and slander Mr. López and pressure the Spanish government to hand him over to the dictatorship.
  — WSJ, 8 July 2020
• Despite being slandered and mocked by her detractors, Fang Fang emerged as a true hero, revered by her fans and admired by her fellow writers.
  — Jiwei Xiao, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2020
• Grant was slandered in service to the Lost Cause, the false narrative that Southerners adopted a century ago to explain away defeat and blot out the shame of slavery.
  — David Plotz, Slate Magazine, 2 Oct. 2017
• Timanovskaya said the Belarusian media have already started to slander her in recent days over the incident.
  — Donald Judd, CNN, 7 Aug. 2021
• Looking at the suburbs, therefore, provides a way of understanding a vast segment of the public without the need to endorse or slander their homes.
  — Anthony Alofsin, The Atlantic, 6 June 2018
• In France in 1793, no woman was more relentlessly slandered than Marie Antoinette.
  — The Economist, 9 Nov. 2019
• Moe said Miller tried to end Moe's business and slandered his family's name, according to court documents.
  — Ryan Martin, Indianapolis Star, 6 Mar. 2018
• Ollie is also represented by the same firm in a suit against Miller in which Ollie and the mother of a former player accuse Miller of slandering them.
  — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 9 Oct. 2019

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slander

2 of 2 noun

• He was a target of slander.
• She is being sued for slander.
• We've heard countless unsupported slanders about her.
• Nobody on the beach is gonna stand for that kind of slander.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• But Holmes's stylist, Brie Welch, is not here for the dress-over-jeans slander.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 14 Dec. 2022
• As for whether the new show will feature the same old slander against Baskin, think again.
  — Bianca Rodriguez, Marie Claire, 10 Apr. 2020
• People are refusing to face the truth, but the Nix slander doesn’t sit well with me.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 28 Oct. 2022
• Well, just the phrase Middle Ages, or the word medieval is already a kind of slander, right?
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2021
• John Burris will try to make a quick buck through slander and race baiting.
  — CBS News, 15 Nov. 2019
• To invoke a legal term, this is a slander, and many at this point resent it.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2018
• The pope apologized but repeated the charge of slander on his flight back to Rome.
  — Ryan Dube, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2018
• But in combination, the term can land as a moral slander — or worse.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• There's no better defense against slander than the truth.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 22 Apr. 2020
• One pines for the day when senators were more artful in their slanders.
  — Larry P. Arnn, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2017
• Those claims amounted to slander and libel, the lawsuit says.
  — Dustin Gardiner, azcentral, 15 June 2018
• Some who post may be sued for defamation, libel, or slander.
  — Gloria Allred, Marie Claire, 6 Feb. 2018
• Jendoubi told me that he’d been perplexed by the flurry of slander that followed the war-crimes report.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• To defend Jews from such slanders was to risk being lumped together with them.
  — Sara Lipton, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
• That’s not slander to the bill’s opponents, who, flush with success, have showered the governor with praise.
  — Julie Cart, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2019
• The landlords retaliated against the woman by suing her in state court for slander and abuse of process, a judge found.
  — Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023
• But that doesn’t give her, or any other progressive, carte blanche to slander Ivanka Trump.
  — Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 1 June 2018
• But the history of beer points to a not-so-magical legacy of transatlantic slander and gender roles.
  — Laken Brooks, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2021
• There was a lot of Brock Purdy slander, hate and criticism in the media and on social media Tuesday.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 24 Jan. 2024
• How dare the Vikings fans besmirch our good names — what was left of them, anyway — with unfounded and spurious slanders.
  — Mike Newall, Philly.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• The rabbis associate metzora with the sin of slander (Arachin 16a).
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2023
• Half a million people in Spain downloaded a recording of the outburst, as did many in Venezuela (where the recording had to be voiced by actors to avoid slander).
  — Saskia Solomon, The Economist, 17 Feb. 2021
• Moore filed a counterclaim against Corfman on Tuesday on grounds of defamation and slander.
  — Paul Gattis, AL.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• But instead of being held accountable in a court of law, the Washington Post just won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for their lies and slander against me and my family.
  — Leada Gore, AL.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• That is a momentous shift for victims of online slander.
  — New York Times, 10 June 2021
• Because each side hears time and again that the other lot are good for nothing but lying, bad faith and slander, the system has even less room for empathy.
  — The Economist, 4 Nov. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024