Read full poem →How _shall_ the ritual, then, be read?--the requiem how be sung
By you--by yours, the evil eye,--by yours, the slanderous tongue
That did to death the innocence that died, and died so young?"
Dictionary Entry
(of something said) Both untrue and harmful to a reputation.
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Common Phrases
words slanderousreports slanderous. slanderoustongues slanderousstatements slanderousaccusations slanderous
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Poetry examples for “slanderous”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →In the which he was slain.”
While I lived I could not cope with slanderous tongues,
Now that I am dead I must submit to an epitaph
Read full poem →occasioned by the one point in common to them all. Instead of the
vehement and almost slanderous dehortation from marriage, which the
Misogyne, Boccaccio [44] addresses to literary men, I would substitute
Read full poem →Though hope fall from you and love decay,
Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue.