slanderer

Example Sentences

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Across the Atlantic it's the opposite: the burden of proof rests with the alleged slanderer, who has to prove what they said is true.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2022

"A thief can give back the thing he stole, a slanderer can acknowledge his calumny," Dolz thinks to herself.

From The Guardian • Mar. 1, 2013

Only during the final minutes, when Berlusconi denounced Marco Travaglio, an editorialist who also appears on the program, for being a "professional slanderer", were there sparks - when Santoro got angry.

From Reuters • Jan. 10, 2013

Bulgakov, who died in 1940, is officially described in the Soviet Encyclopaedia as "a slanderer of Soviet reality."

From Time Magazine Archive

Her first impulse was to tear up the letters and burn them; but this she refrained from doing, for on second thoughts they might be instrumental in obtaining the punishment of the slanderer.

From World's End A Story in Three Books by Jefferies, Richard