Synonyms:
defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch
Meaning: charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
Usage examples
"It's a lie and a slander.
"I'll indict you for slander, my friend," said Bellfield.
Bear not false witness, slander not, nor lie; Truth is the speech of inward purity.
and let no one slander Proteus and Thetis, neither let any one, either in tragedy or in any other kind of poetry, introduce Here disguised in the likeness of a priestess asking an alms
In my first stage the reader will perceive that I was a comparatively weak and harmless little slander, with merely that taint of original sin which was to be expected in one of such parentage.
I do not know what that is, but I think I have got it: it hurts me all over when I walk, and I feel as if I looked like Bill Jacobs's old cat, who, they say, is older than the oldest man in town; but of course that must be a slander.