'slanderous' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is an adjective which means defaming or damaging to someone's reputation. Example sentence: He made slanderous statements about his former employer, which resulted in a lawsuit.
The former Lehman trader's inside account of the investment bank's collapse, published earlier this summer (and newly in paperback in Britain), has been branded by Mr Fuld as "absolutely slanderous", not least for its description of him bunkered in his huge office on the 31st floor of Lehman's headquarters ("Well, I left my office, I left my office plenty," he has countered).
I have done plenty of both and consider the allegation of simplicity slanderous.
Mr Danilkin said the allegations were slanderous.
A fine adaptation of Shakespeare's brilliant but slanderous play.
There are a couple of legitimate ways to compare the two, notably that both employ an argumentative style in which the claim that one is speaking forbidden truths is enlisted to ward off outraged reactions to what are in fact slanderous lies.
Mr Thaçi says this is slanderous Serbian propaganda.
One NASA spokesperson, speaking "personally", comments that "to say that senior officials ignored safety warnings...I hesitate to use the word libellous or slanderous, but that really does offend us".The problem is that in any endeavour of this scale and complexity, there will be differences of opinion over safety risks.
Such slanderous allegations have been investigated before, says Kosovo's government, and found to be baseless.
It will no longer be slanderous to impute unchastity to a woman, or to say someone suffers from "venereal disease, leprosy or the plague".More important are the proposed new statutory defences against libel claims: truth, public interest and honest opinion.
But what if you're surrounded by people who reward you handsomely for making sweeping, slanderous generalisations, both because it delivers ratings and because it's ideologically helpful?I would guess Mr Beck's Nazi fixation stems from a coincidence of strategic and psychological sources.
In June last year, the French Data Protection Authority refused to allow the setting up of anonymous whistleblower hotlines, saying that such lines were "disproportionate to the objectives sought with the risks of slanderous denunciations".
