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

He read off her horse-kick comment, argued that it showed he was right all along about the "emotional instability on the part of this slanderer."

From Time Magazine Archive

O slanderer, hell's imps must say of you: "He does the work we are ashamed to do!"

From The Cornflower, and Other Poems by Blewett, Jean