slanderer
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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
The snake and the slanderer, according to Krylov, engaged in a solemn argument as to which should go first, and each said the honor should be his.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Still, there are milder ways of calling a man to account," said young Thomas Cadwalader, while Hamilton smiled, remembering that savage duel in which John Cadwalader, the father, had punished the slanderer, General Conway.
From The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
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