slanderous
adjUS /ˈslændəɹəs/
Etymology From slander + -ous.
1
Of something said Both untrue and harmful to a reputation.
- “Your lack of basic journalistic ethics in both the manner in which you ‘reported’ this uncredited nonsense, and the slanderous, unnecessary use of my picture without permission demands a response, and I am, of course, pursuing legal action.”2019 March 8, Elyse Wanshel, anonymous quotee, “He Was Mad His Photo Was Used To Show All Hipsters Look Alike, But It Wasn't Him”, in HuffPost:
- Synonyms
- defamatory, libelous
- Derived terms
- slanderously, slanderousness, unslanderous
- Related terms
- slander