slanderer
Example Sentences
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Across the Atlantic it's the opposite: the burden of proof rests with the alleged slanderer, who has to prove what they said is true.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2022
"A thief can give back the thing he stole, a slanderer can acknowledge his calumny," Dolz thinks to herself.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2013
Only during the final minutes, when Berlusconi denounced Marco Travaglio, an editorialist who also appears on the program, for being a "professional slanderer", were there sparks - when Santoro got angry.
From Reuters ● Jan. 10, 2013
Bulgakov, who died in 1940, is officially described in the Soviet Encyclopaedia as "a slanderer of Soviet reality."
From Time Magazine Archive
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I expect you to prevent my being prejudiced by that slanderer.
From Willing to Die by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu