Read full poem →There learn'd she speech from tongues that never cease.
Slander beside her, like a magpie, chatters,
With Envy (spitting cat!), dread foe to peace;
Dictionary Entry
A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.
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Poetry examples for “slander”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Reviving Perrault, murdering Boileau, he
Slander'd the ancients first, then Wycherley;
Which yet not much that old bard's anger raised,
Read full poem →The sins of emptiness, gossip and spite
And slander, die. (Better not be at all
Than not be noblef Leave us: you may go: 80
Read full poem →For bold in heart and act and word was he,
Whenever slander breathed against the King—
Read full poem →Whose glory was, redressing human wrong;
Who spake no slander, no, nor listen’d to it;
Who loved one only and who clave to her—’
Read full poem →Slander*8t no laws, prophan*st no holy page.
As if thy '3 father's crosier rul'd the sta^e.'*
Read full poem →Thy fancy gave no unswept language vent ;
Slander' st not laws, prophan'st no holy page
(As if thy father's crosier aw'd the stage) ;
Read full poem →Why should I clear myself, why answer thou for me?
That shaft of slander shot
Miss'd only the right blot.
Read full poem →upon the floor of the Senate repeated every
slander that envy could invent, and they could
scarcely control the open manifestation of their
Read full poem →What is slander?
Tis an assassin at the midnight hour;