slander

• In spite of all the slander, all the lies from the police, in spite of a trial that was filled with unbelievable bizarre stories from the police about all the things that I did to these cops when in fact the only hard evidence of any injury at all [to them] was three tiny little marks on one cop's hand.
• Somebody might sue you for posting slander, as has happened in recent times.
• The "evidence" for this slander was McCain's daughter Bridget, whom the Senator and his wife had adopted from a Bangladeshi orphanage. —  Freezerbox Magazine
• This slander was refuted by a deputation, who at once visited my mother-in-law, and brought back from her a flat contradiction of the statement I ought to say, that while I was in this circuit, hundreds of drunkards were reformed, many of whom became happy, exemplary, and useful members of the Church. —  Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story
• They take special care that no one should invent slander, and if this should happen they meet the offence with the punishment of retaliation. —  Ideal Commonwealths

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