Meanings
nounslandering (plural slanderings)
plural slanderings
- The act of committing slander.
Here are the slanderings, too, going on at home; for, while the husbands are assembled, it would be hard if the wives were not to do the same; and the very least that is to be expected is, that the tea-pot should keep pace with the porter-pot […]
1862, William Cobbett, Advice to Young Men, and (incidentally) to Young Women
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of slander
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