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
He read off her horse-kick comment, argued that it showed he was right all along about the "emotional instability on the part of this slanderer."
From Time Magazine Archive
And if, after these words, any man says, ‘Liot Borson was a murderer,’ I will call him a cowardly liar and slanderer at Lerwick Market Cross, and follow the words to the end they deserve.
From Prisoners of Conscience by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
