Slanderous

Definition: Slanderous

Slanderous

Adjective

1. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign.

Date "slanderous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Slanderous

Synonyms: calumniatory (adj), calumnious (adj), defamatory (adj), denigrating (adj), denigrative (adj), denigratory (adj), libellous (adj), libelous (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Detraction	Adjective: detracting;Verb: defamatory, detractory, derogatory, deprecatory; catty; disparaging, libelous; scurrile, scurrilous; abusive; foul-spoken, foul-tongued, foul-mouthed; slanderous; calumnious, calumniatory; sarcastic, sardonic; sarcastic, satirical, cynical.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Slanderous

English words defined with "slanderous": Aspersive ♦ Black-mouthed ♦ Disslanderous ♦ imprecation ♦ libel ♦ Maledicent, malignment, mud ♦ smear ♦ Traducent ♦ vilification. (references)

Specialty definitions using "slanderous": ASSIGNMENT EDITOR ♦ Bonnet ♦ MANAGER, PRODUCTION. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Slanderous War (reference) The Vice of Verse & Other Slanderous Rhymes Concerning Famous Philosophers (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
George Bancroft	In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
William Shakespeare	Done to death by slanderous tongues.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Women	Pakistan	The Commission found that the main victims of the Hudood Ordinances are poor women who are unable to defend themselves against slanderous charges. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Slanderous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Slanderous" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	20	78,262

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "slanderous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shpifarak, shpifës (calumniator, calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, detractive, detractor, detractory, deviser, libeller, libellous, scandalmonger), përgojues (defamatory), gojëlëshuar (back-biting, Gabby, loquacious). (various references)

Arabic		‏قذفي (ballistic, defamatory, libellous), ‏إفترائي (defamatory, libeller, scandalous). (various references)

Bulgarian		клеветнически (calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, injurious, libellous, scandalous, wrongful). (various references)

Czech		pomlouvaèný. (various references)

Farsi		افتراامیز (Defamatory, Libelous), بدگویانه . (various references)

Finnish		solvaava (insulting), panetteleva, kunniaa loukkaava (libellous). (various references)

French		médisant (slandering), diffamatoire, calomnieux. (various references)

German		verleumderisch (calumnious, defamatory, libellous, libelous, slanderously). (various references)

Greek		συκοφαντικόσ (calumnious, sycophantic). (various references)

Hebrew		מוציא �"ב�", משמיץ (aspersive, back biter, defamatory, defamer, disgraceful, libellous, slanderer). (various references)

Hungarian		rágalmazó (backbiter, calumniator, calumniatory, calumnious, disparager, libeller, libellous, libelous, maligner, slanderer, to utter a libel against sy, vilifier, vituperative), becsületsértõ (libellous). (various references)

Indonesian		gunjingan (slanderous gossip). (various references)

Italian		calunnioso (calumnious, libellous). (various references)

Manx		lunagh (contemptuous, mocker, reproachful, rude, rude person, sarcastic, slanderer, slandering), floutagh (abusive, aspersive, distainful, flippant, lewdly jocular, mock, reproachful, scornful, scurrilous, taunting, vituperative), cooyl-chassidagh (backbiter, slanderer), cooyl-chassee. (various references)

Pig Latin		anderousslay

Portuguese		difamatório (calumniuos, defamatory, libellous, scandalous), difamador (blackmouth, scandalmonger), calunioso (calumniuos, libellous, scandalous), caluniador (backbiter, calumniator, calumniatory, catty, detractor, slanderer). (various references)

Romanian		ponegritor, defãimãtor (calumniatory, defamatory, defamer, detractive, disparaging, libeller, libellous, scandalous, slanderer), clevetitor (backbiter, calumniator, calumnious, defamatory, defamer, scandalous, slanderer, traducer), calomnios (backbiting, defamatory, injurious), bârfitor (backbiter, calumniator, gossipy, scandal monger, slanderer). (various references)

Russian		клеветнический (calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, libellous, libelous, sycophantic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		klevetnički (calumniatory, calumnious, detractive). (various references)

Spanish		calumnioso (defamatory, libellous). (various references)

Swedish		kränkande (insulting, offensive, outrageous, personal), baktalande, ärerörig. (various references)

Turkish		karalayıcı (black, libellous), kötüleyen (evil-speaking, unflattering), iftiralı (libellous, scandalous). (various references)

Turkmen		tцhmetзilikli. (various references)

Ukrainian		який зводить наклепи, образливий (abusive, affronting, affrontive, contumelious, humiliating, injurious, insulting, mortifying, obloquious, obscene, offending, offensive, opprobrious, ornery, outrageous, pettish, resentful, touchy, umbrageous), наклепницький (calumniatory, calumniuos, defamatory, gossipy, libellous, scandalous). (various references)

Vietnamese		vu oan; nói xấu; phỉ báng, vu khống (calumninatory, calumnious), vu cáo. (various references)

Welsh		enllibus (libellous), enllibaidd (libellous), absennus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	ciminosus, criminosus, famosae, famosissima, famosissimum, famoso, maledicam, maledicas, maledicens, maledicentem, maledicenti, maledicentibus, maledicentis, maledici, maledicos, maledicus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "slanderous": slanderously, slanderousness, slanderousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Slanderous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Salodurus, slangerup. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "slanderous" (pronounced sla"nderus)
5	-n d er u s	ponderous, thunderous.
4	-d er u s	murderous, odorous.
3	-er u s	adulterous, adventurous, amorous, avarice, barbarous, boisterous, cancerous, cantankerous, carboniferous, carnivorous, coniferous, dangerous, decorous, fossiliferous, generous, glamorous, herbivorous, heterosporous, homosporous, humerus, humorous, insectivorous, lecherous, numerous, omnivorous, onerous, overgenerous, oviparous, ovoviviparous, phosphorous, phosphorus, precancerous, preposterous, prosperous, rancorous, rapturous, rhinoceros, rigorous, sonorous, tetramerous, timorous, traitorous, treacherous, unglamorous, uterus, vigorous, viviparous, vociferous.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-n-o-r-s-s-u"
	-1 letter: laundress, solanders, unloaders, unsolders.
	-2 letters: aleurons, anserous, arsenous, danseurs, dourness, ladrones, launders, loudness, lurdanes, neurosal, resounds, roadless, roulades, roundels, slanders, solander, sounders, unloader, unsolder.
	-3 letters: aldoses, aleuron, arenous, aroused, arouses, assured, asunder, danseur, darnels, dorsals, dorsels, dousers, dulness, enduros, ensouls, ladrone, ladrons, landers, lardons, lassoed, lassoer, lauders, launder, loaders, loaners, loudens, lurdane, lurdans.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-n-o-r-s-s-u"
	+2 letters: slanderously.
	+4 letters: glucuronidases, hyaluronidases, idolatrousness, malodorousness, slanderousness.
	+5 letters: ultramodernists.
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